Although Friedman never visited Estonia, his book Free to Choose exercised a great influence on that nation's then 32-year-old prime minister, Mart Laar, who has claimed that it was the only book on economics he had read before taking office.

However Friedman visited Bletchley Park in April 1943 and played a key role in drawing up the 1943 BRUSA Agreement.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

She is visited by Ernest Friedman, an art dealer and friend of all three.

During March 1975 Friedman visited Chile and gave lectures on inflation, meeting with Pinochet and other government officials.

In 1984 he participated, with three other left-wing intellectuals, in a debate with the economist Milton Friedman, who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the " tyranny of the status quo " at the University of Iceland.

Anarcho-capitalist writer David D. Friedman featured classical Iceland in his book The Machinery of Freedom, and has written other papers about it.

Many economists, following Milton Friedman, believe that the Federal Reserve inappropriately refused to lend money to small banks during the bank runs of 1929.

Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.

Friedman began employment with the National Bureau of Economic Research during autumn 1937 to assist Simon Kuznets in his work on professional income.

During 1945, Friedman submitted Incomes from Independent Professional Practice ( co-authored with Kuznets and completed during 1940 ) to Columbia as his doctoral dissertation.

Friedman was an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater during 1964.

Friedman served as an unofficial adviser to Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign, and then served on the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board for the rest of the Reagan Administration.

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

Friedman also met with military dictator President Augusto Pinochet during his visit.

Friedman defended his activity in Chile on the grounds that, in his opinion, the adoption of free market policies not only improved the economic situation of Chile but also contributed to the amelioration of Pinochet's rule and to the eventual transition to a democratic government during 1990.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

His co-students of Leschetizky during that period included Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Mark Hambourg and Ignaz Friedman.

Scholars during this period had also ceased to identify the Germans as neoliberalism ’ s intellectual progenitors, tending instead to associate neoliberalism with the theories of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman introduced the idea of adaptive expectations during the stagflation of the 1970s, which described why government interference ( in the form of printing money ) resulted in increasing inflation, as shop owners started to predict the rate of increase in the money supply, rendering the government action useless.

Friedman had become something of an expert photographer while working on his other projects, and was asked to travel to England on several occasions to help Gallup photograph historical manuscripts during her research.

During this period Elizebeth Friedman continued her own work in cryptology, and became famous in a number of trials involving rum-runners and the Coast Guard and FBI during Prohibition.

Friedman covered Secretary of State James Baker during the administration of United States President George H. W. Bush.

" When asked if he had " China envy " during a Fresh Dialogues interview, Friedman replied, " You detect the envy of someone who wants his own government to act democratically with the same effectiveness that China can do autocratically.

Friedman is a big fan of The Ramones ( to whom he briefly paid tribute in the Arizona based cover band Rocket to Russia ), Black Sabbath, Kiss and Queen ( during their early years ).

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.

On 17 January 2006 the Moscow Court of Arbitration has ruled that the house bought by Friedman should be returned to the state as not all the appropriate procedures have been followed during the privatization.

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.

" In 1984 Friedman stated that he has " never refrained from criticizing the political system in Chile.

In June 1984, Friedman was transferred to Jerusalem, where he served as the Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief until February 1988.

Rhodes met Julie Anne Friedman ( heiress to the Iowa, USA Younkers Department Store fortune ) at a yacht party while on an American tour in 1982, and married her on 18 August 1984.

* Splash ( with Bruce Jay Friedman ) ( 1984 ) ( Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Screenplay ( 1984 ))

* Friedman, Terry ( 1984 ) James Gibbs.

It was at Chicago that Friedman met his future wife, economist Rose Director.

In February 2002, Friedman met Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and personally encouraged him to make his comprehensive attempt to end the Arab-Israeli conflict by normalizing Arab relations with Israel in exchange for the return of refugees alongside an end to the Israel territorial occupations.

In 1975, two years after the coup, he met with Pinochet for 45 minutes, where the general “ indicated very little indeed about his own or the government ’ s feeling ” and the president asked Friedman to write him a letter laying out what he thought Chile ’ s economic policies should be, which he also did.

In high school, Becker met his friend Marty Friedman.

In 1977, Cockett wrote, Fisher moved to San Francisco " with his second wife Dorian, who he had met through the Mont Pelerin Society, and founded the Pacific Research Institute in 1979 " and Fisher and Milton Friedman lived in the same apartment block in San Francisco during the 1980s.

Friedman believed that deficits would be corrected by free markets as floating currency rates rise or fall with time to encourage or discourage imports in favor of the exports, reversing again in favor of imports as the currency gains strength.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

Also in 1973, he starred in Steambath, a play by author Bruce Jay Friedman, on PBS with Valerie Perrine and Jose Perez.

Following the primary show, Dr. Friedman would engage in discussion with a number of selected debaters drawn from trade unions, academy and the business community, such as Donald Rumsfeld ( then of G. D. Searle & Company ) and Frances Fox Piven of City University of New York.

After the final episode, Friedman sat down for an interview with Lawrence Spivak.

This time, after the documentary part, Friedman sits down with a single opponent to debate the issues raised in the episode.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

The identification of the " free market " with " laissez faire " was notably used in the 1962 Capitalism and Freedom, by economist Milton Friedman, which is credited with popularizing this usage.

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

Friedman served two years in the United States Peace Corps, teaching in Borneo in Malaysia with John Gross.

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Friedman released Kinky Friedman in 1974 for ABC Records, then toured with Bob Dylan in 1975-6.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

The National Organization for Women awarded Friedman the " Male Chauvinist Pig Award " later that year, an award Friedman took with pride.

That year, Friedman formed what would prove to be lifelong friendships with George Stigler and W. Allen Wallis.

Indeed, Friedman later concluded that all government intervention associated with the New Deal was " the wrong cure for the wrong disease ," arguing that the money supply should simply have been expanded, instead of contracted.

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

Friedman believed that if the money supply was to be centrally controlled ( as by the Federal Reserve ) that the preferable way to do it would be with a mechanical system that would keep the quantity of money increasing at a steady rate.