Rose and Milton Friedman. Source of image: the online venison of the WSJ article cited below.
Milton Friedman is one of my heroes. But my dinner party invitation list would include Hayek and Schumpeter in place of Marshall and Keynes.
If they were to throw a small dinner party . . . for Mr. Friedman’s favorite economists (dead or alive), who’d be invited? . . . he reeled off this answer: "Dead or alive, it’s clear that Adam Smith would be No. 1. Alfred Marshall would be No. 2. John Maynard Keynes would be No. 3. And George Stigler would be No. 4. George was one of our closest friends." (Here, Mrs. Friedman, also an economist of distinction, noted sorrowfully that "it’s hard to believe that George is dead.")
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