Milton Friedman's Briefcase
date: label: date made
content: 2004
label: date made
content: 1994 - 2004
name: label: user
content: Friedman, Milton
notes: label: Description
content: This briefcase was used by economist Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.” President Ronald Reagan based much of his economic policy during the 1980s on Friedman’s economic arguments. Friedman taught at the University of Chicago for over thirty years and advised many politicians. <i>The Economist</i> considered him “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century.”
place: label: used
content: United States: California, Stanford
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Milton Friedman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0072.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0072
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0072.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: briefcase
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 18 in x 6 1/2 in; 34.925 cm x 45.72 cm x 16.51 cm