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Now that the Milton Friedman Institute (MFI) is up and running, we can clearly see that it is pushing a radical free market agenda without regard to scholarly integrity.  May 7th, MFI will host ideological radical Ernst Fehr… [Read the rest]

At the The Fronhausen Review, there is an excellent post on the Friedman Institute controversy. The post features a report and commentary on a round table between the institute’s committee and its detractors. There is interesting… [Read the rest]

reason magazine comments on Senator Bernie Sanders’ talk at the University of Chicago against the Milton Friedman Institute. In it, they respond to Sanders with a clip from Friedman himself.  Check it out here.

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

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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]

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]