It was the morning of November 17th, 2006; just another ordinary day. I woke up feeling cold, for the winter had set in & went to drink tea with yellow coloured business newspaper in my hand. The newspaper was full of crap about politics, business, etc. of which I was expecting to make some sense. Tucked away in some corner was a small note, with the title "He Freed Men". The man in the picture below is Milton Friedman, and today is his first death anniversary.
His career as an economist began with a small paper published in some journal during his graduation, which caused a stir half-way across the world; and since then, the name has become almost legendary in the field of economics.
He won "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" (more popularly known as "The Nobel Prize for Economics") for the year 1976, "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy".
This post is an amateur economist's tribute to one of the greatest economists of all times. Visit the link below; after all, its the least we can do for some one who "freed men"!
Hasmukh :)
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