I: 1912 to 1946: Early life
Undergraduate years
University of Chicago and Columbia
Rose
World War II
Return to academe
II: 1946 to 1976: Department of economics
"Positive economics"
Family
Professor
A theory of the consumption function
Keynes
A monetary history of the United States
Chicago school of economics
Capitalism and freedom
Travel and Goldwater
Colleagues
Public intellectual and policy proposals
Nixon and the Nobel prize
III: 1977 to 2006: Free to choose
Reagan and international influence
Hayek and the role of ideas
School vouchers and social issues
Friedman prize.