NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman
  • I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1912. In 1946, I began a decades-long career in the University of Chicago's economics department.
  • I won the Nobel Prize in Economics for my research on monetary history and theory, consumption analysis, and the complexity of stabilization policy.
  • My most important work is in monetary economics.
  • I theorized that the money supply affects real economic activity in the short run and a nation’s price level in the long run.