The most important of these facts being that Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz were ... suffering as if this was the Great Depression again. And they've been suffering very tight monetary policy ...

Milton Friedman’s wife ... who lived through the Great Depression, lived through World War Two, lived through the crisis of stagflation and that his ideas really respond to those historical ...

The question is frequently asked what economist Milton Friedman would recommend regarding ... there could have been another Great Depression, and not merely Great Recession, as prices actually ...

But Milton Friedman was never one for victory laps ... three years into the Great Depression. He had attended Rutgers on a scholarship and planned to become an actuary, but failed the exams ...

Milton Friedman was born in 1912 in Brooklyn to ... Federal Reserve (and therefore the “government”) caused the Great Depression was a rhetorical sleight of hand. In his scholarship, he ...

In 1967, Milton Friedman took a temporary leave from ... and avoided another Great Depression. "The state would police the system, establish conditions favorable to competition and prevent ...

Mere mention of the name Milton Friedman tends to conjure up ... and his monetarist explanation for the Great Depression, which he laid out in a coauthored book with the pioneering female ...

IT IS VOGUISH to declare the ideas of Milton Friedman dead ... a speech at a gathering celebrating Friedman’s 90th birthday: “Regarding the Great Depression, you’re right, we did it.

Well before Milton Friedman died in 2006 at 94 ... he arrived just in time for the Great Depression. Economics as a discipline was then in the throes of a transformation. In the early years ...

Excerpted from MILTON FRIEDMAN ... He arrived at graduate school in 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression. Friedman couldn’t avoid the fundamental questions of the age: Could capitalism ...