Happy Birthday Milton Friedman?

[Napoleon's Shadow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmAAqiZ_pUE

[Karsten]

What about happy birthday Harry Potter.

[Pro-Life Libertarian]

One of the leading laissez faire economists of all time. I prefer Austrian to Chicago, but he was a brilliant and good man.

[William R]

Milton at his best!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

[heavenlyboy34]

Don't know much about him yet, but at least he helped popularize "I, Pencil" (even though he didn't give L. Read proper credit ;) )

[Working Poor]

Milton Friedman was the best teacher and speaker. I think all of congress needs to watch every one of hie videos.

[Sola_Fide]

My favorite professor was a Friedman disciple. We had to read Free To Choose and watch the documentary. It was a great introduction to how genius the free market really is.

[brushfire]

The world has its troubles, but it is a better place after having Milton Friedman...

RIP, Mr Friedman.

[Carehn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0g6Et2M8M

[ronpaulhawaii]

I went to an event timed for his birthday the other night. They showed "The Cartel" (a movie about waste fraud and abuse in the education industry) to highlight Friedman's work on "School Choice". Was a eye-opening movie made better by positive receptions gotten handing out RP's "Homeschooling" slimjims afterwards...

RIP, Mr Friedman

[William R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0g6Et2M8M

The death of economist Milton Friedman last week at the age of 94 marks a great loss for advocates of freedom everywhere. He was perhaps the most successful free-market economist of the 20th century, in terms of his real-world impact on politics and policy. Many modern politicians, including Ronald Reagan, considered him a major influence in their careers.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul352.html

[hillertexas]

http://i1037.photobucket.com/albums/a458/hillertexas/MiltonlovesRonPaul.jpg

[Paul Or Nothing II]

One of the leading laissez faire economists of all time. I prefer Austrian to Chicago, but he was a brilliant and good man.

True, he was a monetarist but being a mainstream economist, he did more for spreading the ideas of free market than any other person.


Don't know much about him yet, but at least he helped popularize "I, Pencil" (even though he didn't give L. Read proper credit ;) )

I think you were already told that he did give him credit in another piece.

Anyways, you should watch his videos on youtube, there are many of them; he used to absolute;y DESTROY socialists/communists, his ability to argue the case of free market was amazing & he was one of the frontrunners in spreading the concepts of free market during 70s & 80s when the "Old Right" separated into factions, including libertarianism.

Here's something you might like to watch. His 1980 series "Free To Choose" & another one in the 1990. - http://www.freetochoose.tv/
The great thing about him was that he wasn't all about theories like most Austrians tend to be, he always tried to bring out the real-world examples.


Milton Friedman was the best teacher and speaker. I think all of congress needs to watch every one of hie videos.

I don't think Congress watching it is going to change much, almost all of them are bought anyway but if the regular people watch them then we might have a little hope.

[low preference guy]

Friedman vs. Hayek
Posted by Lew Rockwell on August 1, 2011 10:43 AM
How great to have had historian Ronald Hamowy as a distinguished visiting faculty member at Mises University last week. We did a fascinating and moving podcast about his teacher F.A. Hayek, and his close friends Murray Rothbard and Burt Blumert.

In his graduate seminar, reports David Gordan, Ronald confirmed that it was indeed Milton Friedman who blocked Hayek from the Chicago economics faculty. As a result of the Miltonian blackball, Hayek had to take an unpaid position at the university, and eventually returned to Austria. His American salary was paid by the heroic Volcker Fund, but there was no pension and certainly no tenure.

Link (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92213.html)

[erowe1]

I don't think Congress watching it is going to change much, almost all of them are bought anyway but if the regular people watch them then we might have a little hope.

I think it would do some good for some of them, especially the tea party freshmen.

[gls]

I find it very difficult to support the individual who is directly responsible for the payroll withholding scheme.

[erowe1]

I find it very difficult to support the individual who is directly responsible for the payroll withholding scheme.

Support in what way?

What is it with people here and their worries about whether or not they "support" people who aren't running for anything, like Glenn Beck and Milton Friedman?

[gls]

Support in what way?

What is it with people here and their worries about whether or not they "support" people who aren't running for anything, like Glenn Beck and Milton Friedman?

Whatever. The love for Milton Friedman among some libertarians just perplexes me, that's all. The reality is that the actions he took during his life had a negative effect on freedom. He was just as - if not more - useful to the corporatist establishment as John Maynard Keynes.

[erowe1]

Whatever. The love for Milton Friedman among some libertarians just perplexes me, that's all. The reality is that the actions he took during his life had a negative effect on freedom. He was just as - if not more - useful to the corporatist establishment as John Maynard Keynes.

Have you ever watched Free to Choose?

[Jingles]

Rothbard all the way.

[William R]

Link (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92213.html)

More sour grapes from Lew Rockwellian.

Milton Friedman remembers Friedrich Hayek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKkehoC5khc

[William R]

Reason.tv: Happy 99th Birthday, Milton Friedman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKkehoC5khc

[wannaberocker]

Whatever. The love for Milton Friedman among some libertarians just perplexes me, that's all. The reality is that the actions he took during his life had a negative effect on freedom. He was just as - if not more - useful to the corporatist establishment as John Maynard Keynes.
DO people like yourself not realize that life and economics is a journey and not a race. Hell iv been on that journey for a while now and i still learn new things about economics. When i first started i very much followed people like Krugman and Keynes. But then i discovered guys like Friedman and Sowell. The point is my economic outlook today is not what it was when i was a freshman in college. You live and your learn, So what if Friedman was not this perfect jesus like economist. He still played a massive part in spreading the idea of freedom and free markets. So why cant poeple like you just get past the few blips in Friedman's 50+ years of economic thought.