The Chronicle of Higher Education

Milton Friedman, Influential Economist and Combative Foe of Government Intervention, Dies at 94

By DAVID GLENN

Milton Friedman, a Nobel-winning economist who was one of the 20th century's most prominent exponents of free-market economics, died on Thursday at the age of 94.

Mr. Friedman, who taught for many years at the University of Chicago and more recently was a senior research fellow...

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