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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]

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… [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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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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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

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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]

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… [Read the rest]

There’s nothing like unintentional alliteration in the morning.

Anyway, if you want to print some pro-Friedman literature to put under windshield wipers please consider downloading our flyer. We handed this–and another piece–out on Wednesday at the Naomi Klein event. It… [Read the rest]

Check out C-SPAN 3 on cable or the ‘net to catch a Friedman marathon that a friend just told me about!

http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_rm.aspx

I don’t know how much longer it’s going to last…

People like to label and categorize. I get that. I do it, too. But the thing is that economic theories aren’t left wing or right wing–they’re purely academic until they’re put into policy. These ideas–ideological as they may later become–cannot… [Read the rest]