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Milton and Rose Friedman: An uncommon couple

Milton and Rose Friedman: An uncommon couple

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

On the occasion of what would have been Milton Friedman’s one hundredth birthday (July 31, 2012), the Hoover Institution launched a website dedicated to the lifework of the Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow and his partner in life and in public policy research, Rose Friedman.

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Milton Friedman

Hundredth anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth

Monday, July 30, 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hoover fellow Milton Friedman, a renowned American economist. He was also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976, and a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981.

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The Great War’s Economic Front

by William Anthony Hayvia Policy Review
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

William Anthony Hay on Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War by Nicholas A. Lambert

The Folly of Forgetting the West

by Simon Serfatyvia Policy Review
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

What the talk about American and European decline misses

Niall Ferguson

Ferguson: If euros became drachmas

via Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN)
Friday, July 20, 2012

Niall Ferguson, a Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and a noted author, discusses what would happen if euros became drachmas.

Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow

Hanson discusses the Obama administration on the John Batchelor Show

via John Batchelor Show
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs in on the president’s track record, focusing on the economy, taxes, and inequality. Hanson then addresses the Affordable Care Act.

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A Fiscal History Lesson

by David R. Hendersonvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Following World War II, government spending cuts led to an incredible economic boom...

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I come to praise Ms Merkel not to bury her

by Josef Joffevia Financial Times
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Listening to Anglo-American über-Keynesians a first-time visitor to the eurozone might be tempted to pose three questions, in rising order of bemusement...

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover I

Lazear discusses why tax cuts are key to stimulating the economy and job growth on Fox Business’ Cavuto

via Cavuto (Fox Business)
Friday, June 1, 2012

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, shares his perspective on why tax cuts are integral for boosting jobs and the economy.

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