Who are you Milton?

Milton Friedman is known as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, and I wondered how he was able to get that far.

His life story began on the 31st of July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York.
He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Hungary.
Although they didn’t have a lot of money, they decided that Milton would go to college because he was a gifted student.
He graduated from Rutgers University in 1932 with a degree in mathematics and earned a master’s degree at the University of Chicago. There he met his future wife: fellow economics student Rose Director.
Milton worked in several universities and he obtained his Ph.D after the war.
He received international recognition in 1976 when he won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
He even was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan!
So Milton clearly had an impressive résumé….
Milton Friedman died in San Francisco in 2006 at the age of 94.

Hanne Leus

Sources: achievement.org, britannica.com