1. Friedman - Noun
2. Friedman - Proper noun
United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)
Source: WordNetAny country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. John Kenneth Galbraith
When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman. Mart Laar
Your 15 minutes are here, Friedman... I'm just saying, all your life you know useless and obscure things. And suddenly... It is a fairly strange experience. George Friedman
I bet you anything I could destroy Milton Friedman in a debate about economics - so long as the audience was comprised of five year olds. He may have a Nobel Prize, but I can make offensive sounds with my armpit. Advantage: Goldberg! Jonah Goldberg
Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried. Edward Heath
In effect, Japan in the Nineties offered a fresh opportunity to test the views of Friedman and Keynes regarding the effectiveness of monetary policy in depression conditions. And the results clearly supported Keynes's pessimism rather than Friedman's optimism. Paul Krugman