Peter Gallagher

Not many of us, prob­a­bly, are in thrall to this (now dead) econ­o­mist. But there are many who owe him a debt they know noth­ing about. Why? Samuel Brittan’s “obituary”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cb74eef8-7599-11db-aea1-0000779e2340.html — a model of its kind — in the Finan­cial Times explains. Friedman’s own brief ‘auto­bi­og­ra­phy’ for the Nobel foun­da­tion, last updated in 2005, is “here”:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1976/friedman-autobio.html.