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10 Decades, 10 Lessons from Milton Friedman

By Troy Senik
Wednesday, August 01 2012

Earlier this week, we commemorated the centennial of the birth of Milton Friedman – the economist and public intellectual who probably did more than any other figure in the 20th century to popularize and render intelligible the ideas animating free-market economics. The fact that Friedman nearly got to see the occasion – living until 2006, when he passed away at the age of 94 – is a testimony to his physical endurance. But as impressive as his longevity was, it pales in comparison to the durability of his ideas. Friedman had a rare gift. Like William Shakespeare, whose…

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