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.
Economics is a highly competitive academic field, and piety
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker & Judge Richard Posner on MFI
University of Chicago research centers: biased?
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]
Libertarians are not pie-in-the-sky utopians
A recent Slate.com article by Jacob Weisberg has been getting a lot of attention among free market types over the past couple of days. You can get the gist of the piece from its title: “The End of… [Read the rest]
Friedman: Unfettered Capitalism?
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
Anti-MFI opposed to academic freedom?
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]
Balko on Friedman & Klein
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
Friedman & Chile
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
Friedman was not a conservative
He said it himself. Watch the video.
“I never characterize myself as a conservative economist. As I understand the English language, ‘conservative’ means conserving, keeping things as they are. I don’t want to keep things as they are. The true… [Read the rest]
Flyer: Correcting Klein
We’re not sure why Klein utilizes so many untruths in her new book. Some of us think she herself is misinformed or mislead, while others of us feel there is something more sinister afoot. Whatever the reason, shoddy scholarship should… [Read the rest]
Defaming Milton Friedman by Johan Norberg- Handout!
We posted before about economic historian Johan Norberg’s October 2008 Reason Magazine article that discusses Naomi Klein’s misguided critique of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. (Read it in its entirety here).
But now you can download the… [Read the rest]
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