Milton Friedman — econ (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Milton Friedman was an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 and became the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. His monetarist theory and advocacy for free markets shaped economic policy from Reagan and Thatcher to the Chicago Boys in Chile.
Tracing the roots — Berehove (Ukr)
Born in Brooklyn in 1912 to Jeno Saul Friedman and Sarah Ethel Landau, both recent immigrants from Berehove (then Hungary/Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ukraine), Friedman grew up in the immigrant Jewish household of Rahway, New Jersey. The drive, the rigour, and the conviction that individual freedom matters above all else that define his economics carry the immigrant's understanding of what it means to be free.
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Berehove (Ukr). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"There is no such thing as a free lunch."