On Fridays,Twitter users pay tribute to Milton Friedman, the Brooklyn-born, and Nobel Prize-winning economist,by adding the hashtag #FriedmanFriday, a social media effort popularized in large part by Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and where Friedman was a research fellow.
To exhibit their appreciation, fans of the economist share weekly tributes to the Friedman’s legacy–as a propopent of laissez faire economics, limited government, or freedom from coercion–by generally including a well-posed profile shot of the pensive economist (in which he uncannily resembles August Rodin’s “Thinker”). Friedman,who died at the age of 94 in 2006, famously participated in University of Chicago’s Latke-Hamantash Debate, and delivered an address entitled “Capitalism and the Jews.”Continue reading "Paying Tribute to Economist Milton Friedman on Social Media" at...
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