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At the age of 18, Dave Friedman moved from his native Detroit, Michigan, to Los Angeles, where he worked at a store renting high-end instruments to studio musicians. [1] [2] While there, a customer brought in a Soldano SLO 100 modified by Bruce Egnater of Egnater Amplification; an impressed Friedman contacted Egnater about creating a new preamp, which became popular with local studio musicians ...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is a 2005 book by American political commentator Thomas L. Friedman.It analyzes globalization in the early 21st century, suggesting that the world has a level playing field where countries, companies, and individuals need to remain competitive in a global market.
Friedman's arguments were designed to counter the popular concept of cost-push inflation, that the increased general price level at the time was the result of increases in the price of oil, or increases in wages; as he wrote:
Not So Free to Choose: The Political Economy of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan Praeger, 1987; attacks Friedman's policies from the left online version Roy, Subroto, "Milton Friedman, A Man of Reason (1912–2006)", Obituary in The Statesman newspaper Perspective Page, www.thestatesman.net, November 22, 2006, also available at http ...
By that time, the UK had endured several years of severe inflation, which was rarely below the 10% mark and stood at 10.3% by the time of the election. [14] Thatcher implemented monetarism as the weapon in her battle against inflation, and succeeded at reducing it to 4.6% by 1983.
Price theory was a significant aspect of his legacy as a teacher, and he taught the subject from 1946 to 1964 and again from 1972 to 1976. Notable economists who took Friedman's price theory course include James M. Buchanan, Gary Becker, and Robert Lucas Jr., all of whom later became Nobel laureates. [1]
Field flattener lens is a type of lens used in modern binocular designs [a] and in astronomic telescopes to improve edge sharpness. Field flattener lenses counteract the Petzval field curvature of an optical system, mitigating the field-angle dependence of the focal length of a system.
Thomas Loren Friedman (/ ˈ f r iː d m ən / FREED-mən; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times.