# Milton Friedman Back to [[Economic Freedom and Prosperity]] · [[Case Studies/Hong Kong]] · [[Research and Evidence]] **Role:** Economist; popular champion of Hong Kong - Chicago economist (1912–2006), Nobel Prize 1976 ◻. - *Free to Choose* (book and PBS series, 1980) used Hong Kong as its free-market showcase ◻. He also wrote about Cowperthwaite and the statistics anecdote ◻. - Methodologically close to the post: argument by real-world example and empirical comparison, unlike Rothbard and Mises's deductive approach. See [[Topics/Murray Rothbard/Murray Rothbard|Murray Rothbard]]. Key: ✔ confirmed this session · ◻ standard knowledge, not opened this session · ⚠️ unconfirmed.