Friedman


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  1. born in 1912 united States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy
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  • Friedman test (noun)
    1. pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit; presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant
  • Friedman, Milton
    1. (1912- ) a US ECONOMIST who helped to develop the idea of MONETARISM, the belief that the best way for a government to manage a country's economic system is to limit the amount of money that is available to be used. He won the NOBEL PRIZE for Economics in 1976, and his ideas had an important influence on politics in the 1980s, because the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were based on them.
  • Milton Friedman (noun)
    1. born in 1912 united States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy
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