The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976
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Milton Friedman
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976 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 stabilization policy"
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