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Blogs Liberty and Power Milton Friedman: "The Money Man Who Rewrote the Rules"

Nov 17, 2006

Milton Friedman: "The Money Man Who Rewrote the Rules"

by Liberty and Power

"Milton Friedman deserves to sit alongside Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx and Keynes as one of the greatest economists of all time." Go here to read Charles Goodhart's nuanced and well-informed obituary.

UPDATE: Here are obituaries from the The Independent and The Times. And here is Samuel Brittan's fine appreciation of Milton Friedman with some especially good stories about him.

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Otto M. Kerner - 11/16/2006

Although one can question his merits as an economoic theorist, I always had the sense that, as a human being, Milton Friedman was, at heart, "on our side" and one of the good guys. He'll be missed.