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Friedman: Left Wing, Right Wing or No Wing?
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]
Friedman on Chile
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]
The “Pencil Video”
This is one of my very favorite clips of Milton Friedman, taken from his 1980 PBS documentary series ‘Free to Choose.’ (Watch it all for free on IdeaChannel.tv.) It discusses how trade can bring various peoples together–sometimes unwittingly–due to… [Read the rest]
Free market vs. corporatism
Some people are fond of making the argument that the US has a free market economic system today and that the way in which the government has “reformed” Iraq’s economy, for example, is in the free market mold.
Nothing could… [Read the rest]
Friedman debates Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Courtesy of Copious Dissent
Naomi Klein to speak against Friedman
A group of University of Chicago faculty, along with the Platypus Society, are hosting polemicist Naomi Klein to speak out against the Friedman Institute. Klein is well-suited to this task. Her new book, Shock Doctrine, falsely condemns Friedman as, among other… [Read the rest]
