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Milton Friedman: el economista antes del viaje definitivo
Andújar-Scheker, Julio G.
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2019 |
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[English] Milton Friedman is known by many, for better or worse, as the highest exponent of the Chicago School, the nemesis of the dominant Keynesian school during the Post-War years. Controversial and always ready to defend his ideas, Friedman was more than that. He was a star with its light who wrote more than 200 articles and revolutionized economic theory in its monetary, real, methodological and philosophical phases (Beyer, 1995). He decisively influenced the public policy debate. His imprint was marked in economies as distant as China and Chile and in branches of economic science as far apart as monetary and educational economics. All this and much more is known as one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. However, from his life before the definitive trip to Chicago, little is known. This document explores that story in a tour de force from its origins and family structure to the frantic activity of the World War ii and Post War years, covering its formative years, the ideas that influenced him, his mentors, his beginnings in the labor market and his academic vision based on a strange mixture of Chicago with Columbia, among others.