Characters from Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Adam Smith - He is the author of the book THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and is considered the father of modern economics.

Milton Friedman - An economist, who spent most of his professional career teaching at the University of Chicago and developed a school of thought known as Monetarism and won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976.

Karl Marx - The author of DAS CAPITAL which provided a different way of looking at market economics.

John Maynard Keynes - A British economist and is referred to as the father of modern economics...
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