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I've been trying to find the work for which Friedman was awarded the Nobel prize in economics. Does anybody know what was he awarded the prize for and where can you read the original paper?

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1976 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. [...] His major work, A Monetary History of the United States,1867 - 1960, is regarded as one of Friedman's most profound and also most distinguished achievements. Most outstanding is, perhaps, his original and energetically pursued study of the strategic role played by the policy of the Federal Reserve System in sparking off the 1929 crisis, and in deepening and prolonging the depression that followed. The critics agree that this is a monumental scientific work which will long stimulate the re-examination of the course of events during this epoch.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1976/press.html

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  • $\begingroup$ so he won the Nobel for a 800 + pages book that has a co author?) I've read this explanation in the Nobel prize website. I was hoping for something more concrete. or maybe he was given like generally. he has done many stuff lets give him the Nobel?) $\endgroup$
    – Danny Nelson
    Commented Apr 5, 2017 at 20:26
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    $\begingroup$ I don't know if there is anyone who got an economic Nobel for one single paper. $\endgroup$
    – Giskard
    Commented Apr 5, 2017 at 20:28
  • $\begingroup$ heard of Nash?) $\endgroup$
    – Danny Nelson
    Commented Apr 5, 2017 at 20:29
  • $\begingroup$ You mean the father of Nash-equilibrium and the Bargaining Solution and some other concepts? Who also happened to share the prize? $\endgroup$
    – Giskard
    Commented Apr 5, 2017 at 20:29
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    $\begingroup$ @denesp Ronald Coase got it for two papers, The Nature of the Firm (1937), and The Problem of Social Cost (1960). He barely wrote anything else. That is maybe the best you can get :) $\endgroup$
    – luchonacho
    Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 19:49

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