Milton Friedman Celebration 2010 featuring Michael Podgursky, Susan Feigenbaum and Daniel Thornton

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By Michael Podgursky | Read Time 1 minute

On July 30, 2010, the Show-Me Institute joined many other think tanks around the nation by hosting an event in celebration of the life and legacy of the influential economist Milton Friedman.

At this event, Dr. Michael Podgursky spoke of the benefits of school choice, Dr. Susan Feigenbaum spoke of the negative impacts of discrimination in a free market, and Dr. Daniel Thornton spoke of the dangers of irresponsible monetary policy. Dr. Joseph Haslag moderated, and Dr. Bonnie Wilson introduced the event.

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Michael Podgursky is Chancellor's Professor of economics at the University of Missouri Columbia, where he served as department chair from 1995 to 2005, and research fellow and former director at the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at St. Louis University. He is a former fellow of the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University. He has published numerous articles and reports on education policy and teacher quality. He serves on advisory boards for various education organizations and on editorial boards of several policy research journals. From 1980 to 1995, he was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned his bachelors degree in economics from the University of Missouri Columbia and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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