According to a 2007 article in Commentary magazine, his " parents were moderately observant, but Friedman, after an intense burst of childhood piety, rejected religion altogether.

This division is rejected by most Chinese and many non-Chinese scholars, who believe that Friedman has overstated the differences between the north and the south, and point out that the divisions within Chinese society do not fall neatly into " north-south " divisions.

Friedman was initially rejected by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine for having multicolored hair.

Not mentioned in the film is that Jesse Friedman appealed his conviction ; a federal judge rejected two out of three motions of Jesse Friedman ’ s appeal.

Friedman allowed the Cato Institute to use his name for its biannual Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty beginning in 2001.

To use an example from Milton Friedman, if a theory that says that the behavior of the leaves of a tree is explained by their rationality passes the empirical test, it is seen as successful.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

While Friedman is an advocate of globalization, he also points out ( in The Lexus and the Olive Tree ) the need for a country to preserve its local traditions, a process he termed ' glocalization ', although the term was already in use by most social anthropology theorists.

The blogger Atrios coined the neologism " Friedman Unit " to refer to this unit of time in relation to Iraq, noting its use as a supposedly critical window of opportunity.

In 2008 photographer David Friedman coined the term " keming " on his blog, defining it as improper use of kerning.

William F. Friedman, America's foremost cryptologist, initially became interested in cryptography after reading " The Gold-Bug " as a child-interest he later put to use in deciphering Japan's PURPLE code during World War II.

The extent of sophistication seemed to pose little problem for Mrs. Friedman ; she still mounted successful attacks against both simple substitution and transposition ciphers, and the more complex enciphered codes which eventually came into use.

The series was created by Ethel Winant and Louis Friedman of CBS, who had overcome the objections of network executives who considered it to be an unworthy use of program time.

Their use in artificial computational systems dates back to the 1950s where they were used to solve optimization problems ( e. g. Box 1957 and Friedman 1959 ).

Another argument ( again, made by Friedman ) is that the information needed for Allison's bureaucratic and political models is so large that it is impractical to use in such a crisis.

Together they founded the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, with the aim of promoting the use of school vouchers and freedom of choice in education.

Some economists such as Milton Friedman argue that due to the law of supply and demand, reducing demand is the only effective way to reduce drug use long-term.

" According to Friedman, Babb's midnight presentation of the film twice a week made more money than any other film at the same theater would earn over a full run ; Friedman proceeded to use the film in his own roadshow double features.

In 1971, before Martin obtained his proof, Harvey Friedman showed that any proof of Borel determinacy must use the axiom of replacement in an essential way, in order to iterate the powerset axiom transfinitely often.

This policy has often been cited by economists such as Milton Friedman and the Cato Institute as an example of the benefits of laissez-faire capitalism.

Though opposed to the existence of the Federal Reserve, Friedman argued that, given that it does exist, a steady, small expansion of the money supply was the only wise policy.

Friedman spent 1941 – 43 working on wartime tax policy for the Federal Government, as an advisor to senior officials of the United States Department of the Treasury.

In 1976, Friedman won the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel " for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.

Others including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman place most or all of the blame for the severity of the Great Depression at the feet of the Federal Reserve, mostly due to the deliberate tightening of monetary policy.

Macroeconomic policy, Friedman argues, can reliably influence only the nominal.

" Though he opposed the existence of the Federal Reserve, Friedman advocated, given its existence, a central bank policy aimed at keeping the supply and demand for money at equilibrium, as measured by growth in productivity and demand.

The result was summarized in a historical analysis of monetary policy, Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, which Friedman coauthored with Anna Schwartz.

* Milton Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1976 for " his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy ".

The whole group was heavily influenced by the Chicago School of Economics, and especially by the writings and public policy proposals of Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman is an economist who thinks that such a policy would have that effect.

In October 1975 the New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis declared that “ the Chilean junta ’ s economic policy is based on the ideas of Milton Friedman … and his Chicago School ”.

The reforms, dubbed a shock policy at the time by Milton Friedman, were based on the liberal economic ideas centred around the University of Chicago.

Friedman argued that laissez-faire government policy is more desirable than government intervention in the economy.

Friedman said that if a policy similar to 1907 had been followed during the banking panic at the end of 1930, perhaps this would have stopped the vicious circle of the forced liquidation of assets at depressed prices.

Friedman said, " Reason Foundation's tolerance, civility, and consistency in defending individual liberty make it a haven for believers in a free society of all shades of opinion ;" and according to The Wall Street Journal, " Of all the nation's conservative or free-market policy groups, it may be the most libertarian among them, the Reason Foundation in Southern California, that ends up having the most direct impact on the actual functioning of government.

" He criticized the Bush Iraq policy, and broader White House and congressional foreign and domestic policy making, in his keynote address for the Cato Institute's 2006 Milton Friedman Prize dinner.

America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies, a book by Stratfor founder George Friedman, is an attempt to analyze United States foreign policy in 2004 ; specifically, the war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war on terror.

Friedman, who remains a member of Goldman Sachs ' board, came into violation of Federal Reserve policy when Goldman was converted to a bank holding company in September 2008, thereby placing it under the regulatory authority of the New York Fed.

Friedman suggested, however, that if a policy similar to the Panic had been followed during the banking panic at the end of 1930, it might have stopped the vicious circle of the forced liquidation of assets at depressed prices, just as suspension of convertibility in 1893 and 1907 had quickly ended the liquidity crises at the time.

The policy of concentrating simultaneously on capital-and technology-intensive heavy industry and subsidising manual, low-skill cottage industries was criticised by economist Milton Friedman, who thought it would waste capital and labour, and retard the development of small manufacturers.

The 1976 prize was awarded to Milton Friedman " for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilisation policy ".

The Friedman rule is a monetary policy rule proposed by Milton Friedman.