"All the way back, I thought about the fact that I would be held responsible for what was said in that lecture, even though I never heard it. Thereafter, I was always in my seat when Milton Friedman walked in to give his lecture. On a term paper, I wrote that either (a) this would happen or (b) that would happen. Professor Friedman wrote in the margin: "Or (c) your analysis is wrong." "Where was my analysis wrong?" I asked him. "I didn't say your analysis was wrong," he replied. "I just wanted you to keep that possibility in mind.""
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Thomas Sowell, "Milton Friedman at 90" (2002)
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Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006
US-amerikanischer Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger
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