To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: William Harms, +1-773-702-8356, or Allan Friedman, +1- 773-702-9232, both of the University of Chicago CHICAGO, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Chicago is establishing a center for path-breaking research in economics to build upon the strengths of economists throughout the University and to honor the contributions of Milton Friedman, considered by many to be the leading economist of the 20th century.

The University of Chicago is establishing a center for path-breaking research in economics to build upon the strengths of economists throughout the University and to honor the contributions of Milton Friedman, considered by many to be the leading economist of the 20th century.

By Sue Kirchhoff WASHINGTON -- Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, an outspoken advocate of free markets and free choice, adviser to presidents and best-selling author, died Thursday at 94.

To: National Desk Contact: Robert Fanger, Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, 317-681-0745 or robert@friedmanfoundation.org INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nobel laureate Dr. Milton Friedman passed away early this morning, in his San Francisco home, of heart failure. He was 94. Dr.

By JUSTIN M. NORTON SAN FRANCISCO - Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94. Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D.