21
Nov
2012
Did Milton Friedman Win Two Nobel Prizes?
UPDATE below.
I was googling some stuff to prepare for my second lecture in my Mises Academy class on the Great Depression, and I was skimming Princeton University Press’ blurb on the famous Friedman/Schwartz monetary history of the US. I was surprised to see this: “Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for work related to A Monetary History as well as to his other Princeton University Press book, A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957).”
UPDATE: OK I need to recalibrate my humor meter. I thought it was common knowledge that Milton Friedman couldn’t possibly have won the Nobel as late as 2000. I stand corrected.
Yea, cause he’s a boss like that.
He won a single Nobel Prize on the basis of two works.
Eats, shoots and leaves
Like Southern secessionist.
You mean like the Northern invaders. They invaded, killed, and then left.
It’s just the wrong date; Friedman won the prize in 1976, not 2000.
also there is no such thing as the Nobel prize for economics!
it is a spurious and controversial imitator called “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”