Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument ...

Milton Friedman was a giant among economists in the 20th century. Arguably only John Maynard Keynes walked as easily in the halls of power, academia, newsrooms, and public-speaking venues.

Milton Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and bogeyman of Ec 1, last night defended the "free-market principles" of "unanimity without conformity" against encroachments ...