Economist Touted Laissez-Faire Policy
17th Nov 2006, 04:13 GMT
Milton Friedman, 94, the Nobel Prize-winning economist whose tireless advocacy of unfettered free markets reshaped the nation's economic policies, died Nov. 16 of a heart ailment at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.
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