In economics circles, Friedman is classified as a monetarist?, someone concerned with money and its effects. Friedman was born in New York in 1912. He worked at Columbia University and for the federal government, and became Professor of Economics at Chicago University, finding there like-minded colleagues, and founding with them the Chicago school of monetarist economics.
Friedman is currently affiliated with the [Hoover Institution] at Stanford University, where he maintains an official [home page].
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