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We here at FriedmanFacts.com missed this post from University of Chicago Economics professor Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics:

The Friedman Institute will increase the scale at which Chicago economics will operate, giving us a better chance

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Today I received the new Social Sciences Fall/Winter alumni newsletter, Dialogo.  The front-page article discusses two new institutes in the division this year, one being the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.   From the article:

The Institute

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Is the current economic crisis part of Milton Friedman’s legacy?  Yes, according to Senator Bernard Sanders who will argue the case tonight at the University of Chicago.  Sanders, a self-described socialist who, according to Howard Dean,… [Read the rest]

Someone at Jerry’s Sandwiches here in Chicago appreciates Friedman and has a sense of humor.  Check out this excerpt from their menu:

If you’re not hungry this second, you can still get some… [Read the rest]

FIRE, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is an organization established “to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities.“  It seems that FIRE has been concerned about a minority group of faculty members stifling an… [Read the rest]

University of Chicago professors Gary Becker (economics) and Richard Posner (law) comment in separate posts on their Becker-Posner blog. Both posts are worth a thorough read.

Excerpt from Posner:

Economics is a highly competitive academic field,

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CORES claims that the MFI will be a bastion for blind free-market ideology, therefore harming both campus intellectual debate and U of C’s reputation.  However, we’ve seen more than one institute on campus that a critical mind would suspect, by… [Read the rest]

GMU Economics Department Chair Don Boudreaux writes:

Milton Friedman championed not unfettered markets, but markets fettered by competition and consumer sovereignty rather than by political diktats.  Friedman understood that fetters imposed by government are neither the only nor the best

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Does the anti-Milton Friedman Institute group want to muffle certain types of research at the University of Chicago?  The thought sounds absurd.  Yet, from one of their event invitations (PDF), we discover what is at the heart of… [Read the rest]

Civil liberties journalist Radley Balko comments on whether Naomi Klein is justified in blaming Milton Friedman for the ills of the countries he visited:

[Klein says that] because Milton Friedman advised governments about free markets and individual freedom,

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