Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006 · United States · Economics, Politics
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1976
Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Milton Friedman, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Friedrich Hayek
1899 – 1992 · Economics, Political Economy
Hayek's knowledge-in-prices argument is the Chicago case against planning.
- John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946 · Economics, Politics
Monetarism is constructed as the counter-argument to Keynesian demand management.
Passed the work to1
- Anna J. Schwartz
1915 – 2012 · Economics
A Monetary History is joint work; her archival series is its evidence base.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1976
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
- 2.Primary texts and first editions by or about Milton Friedman
Internet Archive · Primary source
- 3.Catalogued holdings and archival finding aids for Milton Friedman
WorldCat (OCLC) · Archive
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