Paying Tribute to Economist Milton Friedman on Social Media
On Fridays, Twitter users pay tribute to Milton Friedman, the Brooklyn-born, Nobel Prize-winning economist, by adding the hashtag #FriedmanFriday, a social media effort popularized in large part by Stanford’s Hoover Institution, where Friedman was a research fellow.
To show their appreciation, fans of the economist share weekly tributes to the Friedman’s legacy–as a propopent of laissez faire economics, limited government, and freedom from coercion–by usually 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.”
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