http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/miltonfriedman/ en-us Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047024/posts U-Chi’s Dishonorable Faculty by: Deborah Lambert, July 17, 2008 When news surfaced that a research institute was to be established at the University of Chicago in honor of the late Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman, nearly 100 faculty members signed a petition, “objecting to any such enterprise that might place a stamp of approval on Professor Friedman’s economic theories,” according to James Piereson, reporting on the newcriterion.com. One of the major gripes was that this choice “would signal to the outside world that Chicago’s faculty ‘lacks intellectual and ideological diversity’” when in fact it implies “that the left leaning faculty... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047024/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006915/posts Washington, D.C. –The Cato Institute has announced that Yon Goicoechea, leader of the pro-democracy student movement in Venezuela that successfully prevented President Hugo Chávez’s regime from seizing broad dictatorial powers in December 2007, has been awarded the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. * Milton Friedman Prize * Registration for the Milton Friedman Prize2008 Biennial Dinner Registration * Yon GoicoecheaYon Goicoechea Recipient of the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty * Youtube video: Student demonstration in San CristobalAbout the Student Movement * Youtube video: Student demonstration in San CristobalQuotes from Yon Goicoechea * Youtube video: Student demonstration in... Cato Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006915/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:18:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979227/posts Milton Friedmanesque reforms helped create South America’s most prosperous nation.There are now two South Americas,” says Chilean economist Rolf Lüders, a former prime minister under Augusto Pinochet. The old South America, which remains mired in populism and Marxist rhetoric, includes Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The new South America is democratic and free-market-oriented, and includes Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Chile is undoubtedly the most prosperous and stable country in the group, with an annual real growth rate averaging 5.5 percent over the last 15 years and a per-capita annual income of $12,000, the highest... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979227/posts#comment Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:35:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960138/posts 2001 No. 3 Table of ContentsHEALTH CARE:How to Cure Health Care By Milton FriedmanThe United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it. Since the end of World War II, the provision of medical care in the United States and other advanced countries has displayed three major features: first, rapid advances in the science of medicine; second, large increases in spending, both in terms of inflation-adjusted dollars per person and the... Hoover Institution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960138/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1952628/posts Folks, if you don't like the video below, there is something wrong with you. I've had some practice making these YouTube videos over the last week, and I think I finally know what works. You can only expect better ones to come. This is the fifth, and possibly final, compilation of videos that I titled, "Naomi Klein: Shockingly Ignorant." Since she loves to distort what Milton Friedman stood for, I thought I would let Milton debate her in his own words. He makes her look like a fool. Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1952628/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947097/posts One Youtuber imagines a debate between Dr Friedman and Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947097/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:48:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935689/posts It is easy to call yourself a supporter of economic freedom and the rule of law amidst a rapidly rising economy. Now with dark clouds of the recent rise in mortgage foreclosures—and more expected on the horizon—political expediency has eroded the support for free markets in some of its perceived champions. Even self-proclaimed devotees of the late Milton Friedman, President George W. Bush and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, sound more like critics than Friedman supporters. In the wake of a perceived mortgage crisis both have attempted to use the coercive power of government to solve the problem. Both plans center... Flash Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935689/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489732/posts Opponents of Referendums C and D have added a Nobel Prize winner to their argument, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Vote No It's Your Dough campaign. Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, told Independence Institute President Jon Caldara when they met two weeks ago he thought Referendum C was a bad idea for Colorado, according to the campaign. "I strongly urge the voters of Colorado to reject Referendum C, or any action that would suspend Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. I strongly favor the continued and uninterrupted use of TABOR, including... Greeley Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489732/posts#comment Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:35:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893410/posts September 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Economic Freedom Network, a global association of research and educational institutes, has just issued its annual report, which rates only one former communist country among the world's top nations with policies that support economic freedom. That country is Estonia. The report has high praise for Estonia, whose economy grew by over 11 percent in 2006. It notes that Estonia performed better not only in comparison with its Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Lithuania, but also placed ahead of countries like France and Germany -- not to mention Belgium, Ukraine, or Russia, which are near the... RFE/RL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893410/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 10:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843734/posts ...Is immigration, I asked--especially illegal immigration--good for the economy, or bad? "It's neither one nor the other," Mr. Friedman replied. "But it's good for freedom. In principle, you ought to have completely open immigration. But with the welfare state it's really not possible to do that. . . . She's an immigrant," he added, pointing to his wife. "She came in just before World War I." (Rose--smiling gently: "I was two years old.") "If there were no welfare state," he continued, "you could have open immigration, because everybody would be responsible for himself." Was he suggesting that one can't have... Wall Street Journal/Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843734/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jun 2007 18:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822760/posts Paul Krugman was recently called on to smear the recently deceased economist and libertarian polemicist Milton Friedman in the pages of the New York Review of Books. Among the bill of particulars was that Friedman's policy-commenter career began "under rather odd circumstances." That is, under the aegis of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). As Krugman quotes the liberal historian of the Goldwater movement, Rick Perlstein, FEE, founded in 1946 and still around today, "spread a libertarian gospel so uncompromising it bordered on anarchism." That's scary enough for the NYRB reader. But it gets worse. The next sentence.......... TCS Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822760/posts#comment Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:48:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817318/posts A few weeks ago I gathered some quotes of Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, on the same subject. It was a very illustrative exercise, as it allowed me to see how a conservative on one hand, and a liberal on the other, can have a different outlook on the same thing. Recently I read snippets of columns of the late economist Milton Friedman, all of which appeared in the Wall Street Journal over the years. I thought it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast between a champion of the free market versus a champion of government. And... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817318/posts#comment Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817042/posts A few weeks ago I gathered some quotes of Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, on the same subject. It was a very illustrative exercise, as it allowed me to see how a conservative on one hand, and a liberal on the other, can have a different outlook on the same thing. Recently I read snippets of columns of the late economist Milton Friedman, all of which appeared in the Wall Street Journal over the years. I thought it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast between a champion of the free market versus a champion of government. And... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817042/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:14:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815769/posts It was my good fortune to meet Milton Friedman in February 1968, while I was at Oppenheimers. The stock market was in what looked like the early stages of a bear market, with the S&P 500 down 8 percent in a couple of months. My partner and good friend, Fred Stein, feared that the U.S. was going back to the depression of the 1930s. After all, he reasoned, “All consumers had acquired their needs; everyone had a car.” A very recent University of Chicago grad working in the research department suggested that Fred bring in a relatively unknown economist, Professor... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815769/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789001/posts When Milton Friedman stepped forward on December 10, 1976, to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from the King of Sweden, he needed bodyguards. His moment of glory was marred by a mob of protesters outside gathering to condemn Friedman’s alleged complicity in the crimes of the military regime ruling Chile, which allegedly lived and died according to his theories. One heckler even slipped inside, shouting “down with capitalism, freedom for Chile” from the balcony. It was a telling moment in a controversial career. Despite being a professional academic, Friedman had never locked himself away in an ivory... Reason http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789001/posts#comment Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:08:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777679/posts Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, the legendary champion of economic freedom and the nemesis of Keynesian orthodoxy, strongly influenced the economic policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the growing opposition to Communism within the eastern bloc, and more controversially Chile under Pinochet. Less well known is the fact that much before these events transpired he was engaged as consultant by India’s finance ministry, along with another prominent American economist, J K Galbraith, as Independent India embarked on a new economic trajectory. Galbraith and Friedman were at opposite ends of the State-Market paradigm, and both died in 2006. Galbraith was close... The Economic Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777679/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776278/posts American taxpayers are making possible the January 29 airing of a documentary in praise of one of the 20th century’s greatest free market advocates. And that doesn’t sit well with New York Times TV critic Ginia Bellafante, who complained of an imbalanced presentation. Bellafante lamented that Friedman’s theories were only criticized once in the January 29 documentary on Friedman’s life and economic thought entitled “The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman.” “The film is so unabashedly venerating… that it ultimately does its subject a disservice,” Bellafante complained, adding later in her review that “nowhere” in the... Business & Media Institute (businessandmedia.org) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776278/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:21:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773218/posts California governor Arnold Schwarznegger has announced that January 29, 2007, has been declared “Milton Friedman Day” in the State of California. The governor made the announcement on Monday, January 22, during his talk at a memorial service at Stanford University for the late renowned economist. Friedman, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1976, died on November 16, 2006, at the age of 94. Schwarznegger told those attending the tribute ceremony that he was inspired by Friedman and his ideas on the power of the free market while watching the television program Free to Choose in the... Business Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773218/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:58:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771951/posts In July last year, the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics in 1976, granted an interview to The Wall Street Journal. Today we publish material from a question-and-answer exchange he had by email--shortly after their meeting--with his interviewer, Tunku Varadarajan, the Journal's editorial features editor. Should China float the yuan?Milton Friedman: Yes. Pegging the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar requires that China follow a policy which over time yields an inflation rate that is compatible with, though not necessarily equal to, the U.S. inflation rate. When that is not the case, maintaining the peg will require control over... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771951/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:26:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767066/posts California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger once extolled "the power of the market" in Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" PBS series. So it's probably just as well that the late, great economist won't see the regulated mess that his admirer is proposing to make of California's health insurance market. As speaker of the state assembly Fabian Nunes remarked, "This is a plan assembly Democrats could have written." In fact, they already have--in 2003, when Democrat Gray Davis was Governor. Candidate Schwarzenegger campaigned against that measure, which was less onerous than his own new proposal ... But now he's taking on a new... WSJ - Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767066/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763485/posts CHICAGO, Jan. 5 — The annual meeting of the American Economic Association, which opened here on Friday, is usually a pretty esoteric affair. But this year it could resonate much more broadly as the departing president of the organization, which represents most of the nation’s academic economists, tries to push prevailing economic theory further away from the free market approach that has generally held sway for the last four decades. The protagonist in this drama is George A. Akerlof, a Nobel laureate, who is using the same platform that the late Milton Friedman adopted in 1968. As president of the... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763485/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757868/posts December 06, 2006 Milton Friedman, 1912-2006 by Hans F. Sennholz Few American economists have wielded as much influence on economic thought and policy as the late Milton Friedman. He was an articulate and ardent advocate of free markets and personal liberty. In 1962, his CAPITAL AND FREEDOM, which continues to be in print with nearly one million copies sold, pointed the way not only to economic but also political freedom. A year later his MONETARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1867-1960, co-authored with Anna Schwartz, cast a new light on the Great Depression and the policies that caused it. He... SafeHaven http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757868/posts#comment Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:32:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756197/posts New York City has ordered restaurants to stop selling food made with trans fat. "It is a dangerous and unnecessary ingredient," says the health commissioner. Gee, I'm all for good health, but shouldn't it be a matter of individual choice? A New York Times headline about the ban reads: "A Model for Other Cities." "A model for what, exactly?" asks George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux (LINK: www.cafehayek.com). "Petty tyranny? Or perhaps for similarly inspired bans on other voluntary activities with health risks? Clerking in convenience stores? Walking in the rain?" Trans fats give foods like French fries that texture... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756197/posts#comment Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:15:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753602/posts Oh, that Milton Friedman Arnold, meet Arnold A guaranteed standing-room-only state GOP convention: candidate Schwarzenegger debates Governor Schwarzenegger. William E. Saracino is a member of California Political Review’s editorial board. My last three columns have excoriated Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a) refusing to give any help to any other Republican on the ballot, even his fellow moderates; and b) practicing a phony “bipartisanship” — one that consists of caving in to Democrat demands while virtually every Republican legislator opposes him. The reaction from both critics and supporters of the governor has been basically the same: “Well, what did you expect?”... California Political Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753602/posts#comment Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:13:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752526/posts The late Nobel Economic laureate Milton Friedman once remarked, “Money is too important to be left to central bankers. You essentially have a group of unelected people who have enormous power to affect the economy. I’ve always been in favor of replacing the Fed with a laptop computer, to calculate the monetary base and expand it annually, through war, peace, feast and famine by, perhaps, a predictable 2 percent,” Friedman said. FinancialSense http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752526/posts#comment Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:18:21 GMT