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Title: Milton Friedman papers
Date (inclusive): 1931-2006
Collection number: 77011
Creator:
Friedman, Milton, 1912-2006
Creator:
Friedman, Rose D.
Physical Description:
228 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 4 card file boxes, 1 slide box, 1 envelope
(94 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, statistics, printed matter, sound recordings, videotapes, and photographs, relating
to economic theory, economic conditions in the United States, and governmental economic policy. Digitized copies of many of
the sound and video recordings in this collection, as well as some of Friedman's writings, are available at
http://hoohila.stanford.edu/friedman/ .
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Digitized materials are protected by copyright laws and are provided for educational and research purposes only. Any infringing
use may be subject to disciplinary action and/or civil or criminal liability as provided by law. If you believe you are the
rights holder and object to Hoover's use of a digitized item, please contact archives@hoover.stanford.edu.
[Identification of item], Milton Friedman papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
First acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1977, the collection includes additions from the 1980s until 2007 in
boxes 109-112 and a large increment in boxes 113-235 acquired in 2008.
Also available on microfilm (226 reels).
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
| 1912, July 31 | Born, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1932 | B.A., Rutgers University |
| 1933 | M.A., University of Chicago |
| 1934-1935 | Research assistant, Social Science Research Committee, University of Chicago |
| 1935-1937 | Associate economist, National Resources Committee, Washington, D.C. |
| 1937-1940 | Lecturer, Columbia University |
| 1937-1946, 1948-1981 | Member, Research Staff, National Bureau of Economic Research, New York |
| 1938 | Married Rose Director |
| 1940-1941 | Visiting professor of economics, University of Wisconsin |
| 1941-1943 | Principal economist, Division of Tax Research, U.S. Treasury Department |
| 1942 | Professor, United States Department of Agriculture Graduate School, Washington, D.C. |
| 1943 | Author (with Carl S. Shoup and Ruth P. Mack), Taxing to Prevent Inflation |
| 1943-1945 | Associate director, Statistical Research Group, Division of War Research, Columbia University |
| 1945 | Author (with Simon S. Kuznets), Income from Independent Professional Practice |
| 1945-1946 | Associate professor of economics and statistics, University of Minnesota |
| 1946 | Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 1946-1948 | Associate professor of economics, University of Chicago |
| 1948 | Author (with Harold A. Freeman, Frederic Mosteller, W. Allen Wallis), Sampling Inspection |
| 1948-1982 | Professor of economics, University of Chicago |
| 1950 | Consultant, Economic Cooperation Administration, Office of the United States Special Representative in Europe, Paris |
| 1953 | Author, Essays in Positive Economics |
| 1956-1979 | Council of Academic Advisers, American Enterprise Institute |
| 1957 | Author, A Theory of the Consumption Function |
| 1960 | Author, A Program for Monetary Stability |
| 1962 | Author,
Price Theory: A Provisional Text
Author (with Rose D. Friedman), Capitalism and Freedom |
| 1963 | Author (with Anna J. Schwartz),
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Author, Inflation: Causes and Consequences |
| 1968 | Author, Dollars and Deficits: Inflation, Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments |
| 1968-1994 | Advisory Board, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking |
| 1969 | Author, The Optimum Quantity of Money and Other Essays |
| 1969-1970 | Member, The President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force |
| 1970 | Author (with Anna J. Schwartz), Monetary Statistics of the United States |
| 1972 | Author, An Economist's Protest: Columns on Political Economy |
| 1973 | Member, The President's Commission on White House Fellows |
| 1975 | Author, There Is no Such Thing as a Free Lunch |
| 1976 | Author,
Price Theory
Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics |
| 1977- | Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, California |
| 1978 | Author, Tax Limitation, Inflation and the Role of Government |
| 1980 | Author (with Rose D. Friedman), Free to Choose, and presenter of a ten-part TV series on PBS of the same title. |
| 1981-1988 | Member, The President's Economic Policy Advisory Board |
| 1982 | Author (with Anna J. Schwartz), Monetary Trends in the U.S. and the United Kingdom |
| 1983 | Author, Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest |
| 1983- | Professor emeritus, University of Chicago |
| 1984 | Author (with Rose D. Friedman), Tyranny of the Status Quo, and presenter of a three part PBS television program of the same title. |
| 1986 | Awarded the Grand Cordon of the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japanese Government) |
| 1988 | Awarded the National Medal of Science |
| Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom | |
| 1992 | Author Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. |
| Author (with Thomas S. Szasz) Edited and with a Preface by Arnold S. Trebach and Kevin B. Zeese. Friedman and Szasz on Liberty and Drugs: Essays on the Free Market and Prohibition | |
| 1992- | Active Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (European Academy of Sciences and Arts) |
| 1993- | Founding Member, National Coalition for Drug Policy Change |
| 1996- | Chairman, Board of Directors, Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation to promote public understanding of the need for major reform in K-12 education and the role that competition through educational choice can play in achieving that reform |
| 1998 | Author (with Rose D. Friedman) Two Lucky People: Memoirs |
| 1999- | Member, Advisory Board, California Parents for Educational Choice |
| 2006 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Milton Friedman papers include a variety of materials relating to economic theory, economic conditions in the United States,
and governmental economic policy. Friedman interacted with a wide a network of academics, economists, and politicians, with
whom he corresponded frequently. The papers display his thoughts and expertise in extensive correspondence, speeches and writings,
collected research materials, statistics, printed materials, and photographs, as well as audio and video recordings.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Economics.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Economic conditions.
United States--Economic policy.
Reagan, Ronald.
Phonotapes.
Video tapes.
Economists.