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Article: So, What's New?(economist Milton Friedman)(Interview)
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- The International Economy
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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The "New Economy" looks like the same Old Economy to the Nobel Laureate, Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman's gait has slowed down, and so has his schedule. But not his mind. At age 88, the Nobel Laureate in economics understandably grants interviews and writes commentaries only rarely. But that doesn't mean he isn't paying attention to what's going on around the world or that he is any less opinionated about the latest economic trends--from the New Economy to the euro to the electricity crisis in California, where he now resides.
Friedman and John Maynard Keynes are arguably the most influential economists of the Twentieth Century. But as we begin a new ...