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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 academic… [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, and piety

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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 this… [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, and

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I just came across an excellent, even-handed article in reason discussing the pros and cons of Friedman’s interaction with Chile. An excerpt:

It may have been more morally satisfying to have no relationship with Pinochet, merely condemn him from

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Although Swedish writer Johan Norberg has done an excellent job of discrediting the idea that Milton Friedman and his scholarship were responsible for Chilean violence, both in print and video, we can also see what Friedman himself said… [Read the rest]