Milton Friedman, 1912-2006
by Henning FischerAmong both liberals and conservatives, he was one of the great giants of 20th century economics.
“What was really so important about him,” said W. Allen Wallis, a former classmate and later faculty colleague at the University of Chicago, “was his tremendous basic intelligence, his ingenuity, perseverance, his way of getting to the bottom of things — of looking at them in a new way that turned out to be right.”
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