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Milton Friedman: A Finding Aid

Resources by and about Milton Friedman

Compiled by Ellen Terrell and Angela Wilson
Business Reference Services
December 2006

This is a short guide to resources by and about Milton J. Friedman (July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006). For additional information about the life of Friedman, please see the list of key events in his life on the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation web site.

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Awards/Special Recognition

John Bates Clark Medal (1951)
American Economic Association
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/clark_medal.htm

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1976)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1976/index.html

Image of Milton Friedman, 2002, courtesy of the University of Chicago

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Image (above):
Photograph of Milton J. Friedman, 2002
Courtesy of the University of Chicago

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)
"Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom," by President Ronald Reagan. From the Archives of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/101788b.htm

President Honors Milton Friedman for Lifetime Achievements (May 2002)

Remarks by President George W. Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020509-1.html
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2002/s20020509-secdef.html

"Recognizing the accomplishments of Professor Milton Friedman." (S.Res.319, August 1, 2002)
U.S. Congress Senate. 107th Congress, 2d Session S. RES. 319 August 1, 2002.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.+Res.+319:

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke at the Conference to Honor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (November 8, 2002)
On Milton Friedman's Ninetieth Birthday
http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021108/default.htm

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Conference on the Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose, Dallas, Texas (October 24, 2003)
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boardDocs/Speeches/2003/20031024/default.htm

Books

Friedman, Milton. "The Methodology of Positive Economics," in Essays in Positive Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1953. 328 p.
LC Call Number: HB33.F7
LC Catalog Record: 53003533

Friedman, Milton. "The Role of Government in Education," in Economics and the Public Interest.
Ed. Robert A. Solo. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1955, pp. 123-144.
LC Call Number: HD82 .S587
LC Catalog Record: 55006106
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/50/1955.pdf [PDF Format: 899 KB / 20 p.]

Friedman, Milton. Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1956. 265 p.
LC Call Number: HG221 .F87
LC Catalog Record: 56010999

Friedman, Milton. A Theory of the Consumption Function. National Bureau of Economic Research, New York. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1957. 243 p.
LC Call Number: HB801 .F7
LC Catalog Record: 57005454

Friedman, Milton, with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman. Capitalism and Freedom. 40th Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p.
LC Call Number: HB501 .F7 2002
LC Catalog Record: 2002067530
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Friedman, Milton and Rose Friedman. Free to Choose : A Personal Statement. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. 338 p.
LC Call Number: HB501 .F72 1990
LC Catalog Record: 90036179
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Friedman, Milton and Simon Kuznets. Income from Independent Professional Practice.
New York : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1945. 599 p.
LC Call Number: HD4965.U5 F72
LC Catalog Record: 46002729

Provides a description of the income structure of the professions of medicine, dentistry, law, accounting, and engineering during 1929-36. Submitted by Friedman, as a Ph.D. Thesis to Columbia University in 1946. Also cited as National Bureau of Economic Research Publication, no. 45.

Friedman, Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1963. 860 p.
LC Call Number: HG538 .F86
LC Catalog Record: 63007521

Also cited as National Bureau of Economic Research. Studies in business cycles, 12.

Hammond, J. Daniel, "Labels and Substance: Friedman's Restatement of the Quantity Theory," in History of Political Economy, Volume 31, Number 3 (1999) pp. 449-471.
LC Call Number: HB1 .H55
LC Catalog Record: 76012245
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_of_political_economy/v031/31.3hammond.html Note: Access limited to subscribers.

Selden, Richard T. Selden, ed. Capitalism and Freedom: Problems and Prospects; Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Milton Friedman. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia [1975]. 331 p.
LC Call Number: HB501 .C2424
LC Catalog Record: 74005333

Wynne, Mark A., Harvey Rosenblum, and Robert L. Formaini. The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose : Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century. Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, October 2003, with a foreword by Milton and Rose Friedman. Dallas, Tex. : Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2004. 254 p.
LC Call Number: HB95 .L44 2004
LC Catalog Record: 2005364587
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Internet Resources

"Biography of Milton Friedman, 1912-2006" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Friedman.html

Formaini, Robert L. "Milton Friedman--Economist as Public Intellectual," in Economic Insight.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, November 20, 2006.
http://www.dallasfed.org/research/ei/ei0202.html

Friedman, Milton. "Is Capitalism Humane?" from Friedman's Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest, a collection of Newsweek articles by Milton Friedman published by Thomas Horton and Company, 1972.
http://www.freetochoose.net/article_2b.html

Friedman, Milton. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits."
New York Times Magazine. 13 September 1970, p. 32.
http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-resp-business.html

"Interview with Milton Friedman," The Region.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, June 1992.
http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/92-06/int926.cfm

"Interview with Milton Friedman," by Russ Roberts in Library of Economics and Liberty. Podcast Transcript of Edcon Talk, September 4, 2006.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Friedmantranscript.html

Interview with Milton Friedman on his "Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom," Saturday Sept. 24, 1994, from C-SPAN's Author Interview series. Transcript.
http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1226

Additional information available at Encore Booknotes : Highlights from C-SPAN's Sunday author interview series.
http://www.booktv.org/Booknotes/index.asp?schedid=378&segid=6109

Milton Friedman, List of works (not exhaustive) from Wikipedia article on Milton Friedman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#Works

"Milton Friedman," PBS Profile accompanying PBS Interview of Milton Friedman October 10, 2000.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/prof_miltonfriedman.html

Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/

"Milton Friedman Biography," American Academy of Achievement.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/fri0bio-1

Milton Friedman page. Hoover Institution. (Includes multimedia).
http://www.hoover.org/bios/friedman.html

"Milton Friedman and Cato," Cato Institute.
http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/

"Nobel-Winning Economist Milton Friedman Dies," by Alex Chadwick and Amy Scott.
National Public Radio obituary - with audio.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6497584&ft=1&f=1001

"Nobel-winner Milton Friedman dead at 94: Economist had ear of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan," MSNBC obituary, November 16, 2006.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750712/

"Professor Emeritus Milton Friedman dies at 94,"
Press Release with obituary from the University of Chicago.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061116.friedman.shtml

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