Milton Friedman on Economics : Selected Papers

The University of Chicago Press

Milton Friedman on EconomicsSelected Papers\nAuthor(s): Milton Friedman, Gary S. Becker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226263496, 978-0226263496\nSynopsis\nUpon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as \""the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era\"" by the \""New York Times\"" and \""the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century\"" by the \""Economist\"". Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public intellectual, the leader of a revolution in economic and political thought that argued robustly in favor of the virtues of free markets and laissez-faire policies. \""Milton Friedman on Economics\"" collects a variety of Friedman's papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the \""Journal of Political Economy\"". Opening with Friedman's .