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Jewish Achievement in Economics
From the Jewish Business Magazine Jewish Achievement in Economics and Finance The Jewish people have always been considered to be particular adept in manners of finance and economics. However, in this recession we hear far too many negative stories involving companies and executives with Jewish surnames whether it be Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers or Lloyd Blankfein and Alan Greenspan; Jews in economics have suffered some very bad public relations.
For all of the negative Jewish economists, there has been hundreds of Jewish economist who we could not live without. In this next part of the Jewish Business Magazine partnership with Steven Pease, author of Golden Age of Jewish Achievement, we look at the great Jewish economist, Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman Milton Friedman was born July 31, 1912 to a devout Orthodox Jewish family. He attended Hebrew School and followed every Orthodox practice until shortly before his Bar Mitzvah when he became an outspoken agnostic. Nonetheless, for his parent’s sake he went through with his Bar Mitzvah.
An excellent student, he started college at fifteen. Though Rutgers gave him a partial scholarship, he worked as a part-time clerk, waiter, and entrepreneur—competing with the Rutgers bookstore in buying and reselling used textbooks—to ... more

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