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Milton Friedman

1912 - 2006

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Milton Friedman ( ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Several students, young professors and academics who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, and Robert Lucas Jr. Friedman's challenges to what he called "naive Keynesian theory" began with his interpretation of consumption, which tracks how consumers spend. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milton Friedman is the 11th most popular economist (down from 8th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from United States (down from 131st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Economist.

Milton Friedman is most famous for his work on the causes of the Great Depression and the policies that were put in place to combat it.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Milton Friedman ranks 11 out of 414. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Passy, and Vilfredo Pareto. After him are François Quesnay, Joseph Schumpeter, Mario Draghi, George Shultz, Alfred Marshall, and John Law.

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Among people born in 1912, Milton Friedman ranks 9. Before him are Alan Turing, Eva Braun, Erich Honecker, Otto von Habsburg, Jackson Pollock, and Wernher von Braun. After him are Michelangelo Antonioni, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, John Cage, Raoul Wallenberg, Clara Petacci, and Alfredo Stroessner. Among people deceased in 2006, Milton Friedman ranks 10. Before him are Slobodan Milošević, Augusto Pinochet, Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Davis Jr., Gerald Ford, and Stanisław Lem. After him are Alfredo Stroessner, Owen Chamberlain, James Brown, Syd Barrett, György Ligeti, and Philippe Noiret.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton Friedman ranks 225 out of 20,380. Before him are Buster Keaton (1895), Tom Cruise (1962), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), and Grover Cleveland (1837). After him are Ray Bradbury (1920), Humphrey Bogart (1899), George Lucas (1944), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), J. D. Salinger (1919), and Willard Van Orman Quine (1908).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Milton Friedman ranks 2. Before him are Herbert A. Simon (1916). After him are George Shultz (1920), William F. Sharpe (1934), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Edmund Phelps (1933).

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