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Friedman: Left Wing, Right Wing or No Wing?
People like to label and categorize. I get that. I do it, too. But the thing is that economic theories aren’t left wing or right wing–they’re purely academic until they’re put into policy. These ideas–ideological as they may later become–cannot… [Read the rest]
The “Pencil Video”
This is one of my very favorite clips of Milton Friedman, taken from his 1980 PBS documentary series ‘Free to Choose.’ (Watch it all for free on IdeaChannel.tv.) It discusses how trade can bring various peoples together–sometimes unwittingly–due to… [Read the rest]
Free market vs. corporatism
Some people are fond of making the argument that the US has a free market economic system today and that the way in which the government has “reformed” Iraq’s economy, for example, is in the free market mold.
Nothing could… [Read the rest]
Economic Historian Johan Norberg on Naomi Klein’s Polemic Against Milton Friedman
Swedish author Johan Norberg sits down with reason.tv‘s Michael C. Moynihan to discuss Naomi Klein’s diastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist Milton Friedman.
Friedman debates Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Courtesy of Copious Dissent
