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Rose Friedman, who was partner and collaborator with her late husband Milton on many of his most important works of political thought and advocacy, has died of heart failure. Though her birth records in her native Russia are lost, she was believed to have been 99. The Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation has a notice of her death, which also sums up the achievements of her life: She will be remembered both as a talented economist and an influential advocate of freedom. Her economic work helped to discredit the idea of government management of the economy, rolling back policies that...

Rose Friedman, widow of renowned economist Milton Friedman, passed away in Washington, D.C. today. Records do not clearly indicate her date of birth, but she was deemed to have been 98. Her husband passed away in November 2006. Education experts in Pennsylvania and beyond lauded the work she and her late husband performed to popularize efforts to allow parents to choose schools for their children. “Rose Friedman was an extremely powerful voice in promotion of freedom. In addition to being a vocal supporter of human liberty, her work helped to discredit government management of the economy,” Andrew T. LeFevre, executive...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--One doesn't interview a man like Milton Friedman--the Nobel laureate in economics in 1976 and among the five or six most consequential thinkers of the 20th century--without doing some assiduous homework. So I gathered his books--reading some, re-reading others--and made pages and pages of notes. I also emailed several intellectual heavyweights, asking them what they might enquire of Mr. Friedman--now 94 years of age--if they had him cornered at a cocktail party. Replies flooded back. "Inflation targeting," wrote a (marginally) younger Nobel economist. "Education," said another Nobel laureate. "Does the recent record of spending with a Republican president...

FRIEDMAN FOR ARNOLD: Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman of Stanford University's Hoover Institution told HUMAN EVENTS' John Gizzi on August 21 that he would be endorsing Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California. "My impression is that he is fundamentally a small- government libertarian, although that is belied to some extent by the proposition he got through last year [providing tax dollars for after-school programs]," said Friedman. He added that he and wife Rose were "favorably impressed" with Schwarzenegger when they met over dinner and discussed the free market more than twenty years ago. *NO NEW TAXES? When asked about Schwarzenegger's refusal...