| Milton Friedman  Born: 31-Jul-1912
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 16-Nov-2006
Location of death: San Francisco, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Economist
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics Father: Jeno Friedman
Mother: Sarah Landau
Wife: Rose Director (m. 25-Jun-1938, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Janet
Son: David Friedman
University: BA, Rutgers University (1932)
University: MA, University of Chicago (1933)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1946)
Professor: Economics, University of Chicago (1946-76)
Academy of Achievement (1971)
Econometric Society Fellow (1949)
American Philosophical Society 1957
Club for Growth
Council for National Policy
Hoover Institution Senior Research Fellow
National Academy of Sciences
National Association for Business Economics Fellow
Econometric Society
American Statistical Association
Forbes 2000
Mont Pelerin Society President 1970-72
Philadelphia Society Board of Trustees
Western Economic Association President (1985)
John Bates Clark Medal
Nobel Prize for Economics 1976
National Medal of Science 1988
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1988
Pied coconut creme 9-Oct-1998
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Corporation (10-Sep-2003) Himself
Author of books:
Capitalism and Freedom (1962, economics, with Rose D. Friedman)
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (1963, economics, with Anna J. Schwartz)
Free to Choose (1980, nonfiction, with Rose D. Friedman)
Bright Promises, Dismal Performance (1983, columns)
Tyranny of the Status Quo (1984, nonfiction)
Two Lucky People (1998, memoir, with Rose D. Friedman)
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