Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94

From Business Week: Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94

Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94.

Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis. He did not know the cause of death.

Love his views or not, he was a 20th Century giant. It is the end of an era.


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2 responses to “Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94”

  1. Dana Ames Avatar
    Dana Ames

    I think I remember hearing somewhere that back in his younger days he spent a lot of time in Ayn Rand’s salon with her “disciples”. Wonder how much that influenced his economic thought.
    Dana

  2. Honestly, I don’t know much about his personal life. It would be interesting to know.

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