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午间歇息,正在听到《葬花吟》,到yahoo!新闻看到,弗里德曼去世的消息。
米尔顿-弗里德曼(Milton Friedman)是著名美国经济学家,诺贝尔经济学奖获得者,他是在2006年11月16日去世,享年94岁(July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006)。
我们现在都知道,通货膨胀起源于“太多的货币追逐太少的商品”,这个观点就是弗里德曼提出的。有关他的学术,在中国经济学界几乎是无人不知。有关他的著述,更是被出版了几十版。
yahoo!的新闻里写道:
"Milton Friedman revived the economics of liberty when it had been all but forgotten," ……"He was an intellectual freedom fighter. Never was there a less dismal practitioner of a dismal science."[阅读全文]
纽约时报的网站里是这么写的:
It was not only Mr. Friedman’s antistatist and free-market views that held sway over his colleagues. There was also his willingness to create a place where independent thinkers could be encouraged to take unconventional stands as long as they were prepared to do battle to support them. [阅读全文]
华盛顿邮报的网站是这么评价他的:
One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, Friedman championed individual choice on topics ranging from Social Security to the military draft. He revived conservative economic theory after the big-government era of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, leading the movement that says government's proper role in the market is to stabilize the growth of the money supply -- and stay out of the way.[阅读全文]
维基百科里收录关于“Milton Friedman”的词条,在这里。
弗里德曼理论最盛行的时候,是在尼克松、福特,尤其是里根时代。他鼓吹“自由市场经济”,批评政府干预市场,希望政府不干预经济,十分热衷于倡导经济自由主义,是弗里德曼经济学理论的核心所在。
1976年他获得诺贝尔经济学奖。诺贝尔奖的官方网站里,有关他获奖的描述以及关于他的传记,可以参阅这里。
他应该是二战后最具影响力的经济学家,最后一位既家喻户晓又拥有最高专业成就的伟大经济学家。自他之后,经济学大师时代可能已经一去不复返了。(2006年11月17日⊙和讯博客)




