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Neoliberalism. Milton Friedman ( / ˈfriːdmən / ⓘ; 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. [ 4] With George Stigler ...
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a 1980 book by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman, accompanied by a ten-part series broadcast on public television, that advocates free market principles. It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series The Age of Uncertainty , by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith .
[2] [3] The free-market economist Milton Friedman also increased its exposure and use [1] by paraphrasing it as the title of a 1975 book, [4] and it is used in economics literature to describe opportunity cost. [5] Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is "at the core of economics". [6]
First edition. (publ. University of Chicago Press) Milton Friedman 's book Essays in Positive Economics (1953) is a collection of earlier articles by the author with as its lead an original essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics." This essay posits Friedman's famous, but controversial, [citation needed] principle (called the F-Twist by ...
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his groundbreaking work on monetary policy and free-market principles, would argue that inflation has a similar effect.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism".
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to. The Best of Reason: Milton Friedman Was No Conservative Skip to main content
Capitalism and Freedom. Capitalism and Freedom is a book by Milton Friedman originally published in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press which discusses the role of economic capitalism in liberal society. It has sold more than half a million copies since 1962 and has been translated into eighteen languages.