21 6 / 2012

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After Mr. Friedman’s death in 2006, Mrs. Schwartz “became the standard-bearer” of Friedman monetarism, said Michael D. Bordo, a professor of economics at Rutgers University and for decades a Schwartz collaborator himself.

Though “not a deep theorist,” he said, Mrs. Schwartz was “probably the best woman economist of the 20th century.”

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Don’t see why that Bordo quote needed to go into the obit. Seems entirely gratuitous to me.

Anna Schwartz, Economist Who Worked With Friedman, Dies at 96 - NYTimes.com

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