Naomi Klein’s ability to shamelessly spin lies without scorn from the journalistic community is astounding. Despite excellent treatises on her fact-checking and logical ineptitude (here, here, here, here, and here, plus a bevy of YouTube… [Read the rest]
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The truth about Milton Friedman and free markets
Statement from chair of Friedman Institute committee
Lars Hansen, economics professor at the University of Chicago, posted a statement (PDF) on his website about the Friedman Institute. The statement gives an excellent explanation of MFI’s goals and motivations.
Goals of MFI:
The Milton Friedman Institute will
Levitt on MFI
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 of competing
Free market capitalism bars the use of physical force in relationships
Naomi Klein, Friedman polemicist, has a newish interview in the New Yorker magazine in which she tries to equate the horrible results of communist/socialist ideology (i.e. that enforced under the rule of Stalin, Hitler and others) to the horrible results… [Read the rest]
The Fatal Conceit is alive and kicking
Austrian economist F.A. Hayek had a term for the belief that knowledgeable, sophisticated people could plan for an ideal outcome. He called it the “fatal conceit,” and even wrote an entire book on the subject. His thesis was that… [Read the rest]
U. Chicago Newsletter Article on MFI
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 is
Is the current economic crisis part of Milton Friedman’s legacy?
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, “votes with… [Read the rest]
Sen. Bernie Sanders to lay financial crisis blame at Friedman’s feet
In the latest of a series of anti-Friedman events at the University of Chicago, CORES, Students for CORES and some other statist groups are hosting independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for a lecture on how the lack of… [Read the rest]
Have a hankering for Friedman?
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 freedom of… [Read the rest]
Academic Freedom Institute concerned about MFI opposition
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]
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