Comments on: Milton Friedman dies at 94 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:16:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason Soon http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63130 Jason Soon Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:12:18 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63130 Don here's the Radical Libertarian take from Mises.org http://mises.org/story/2393 <blockquote>Milton Friedman died today at age 94. May he rest in peace. I don't want to discuss the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" he supposedly inspired. Nor his "Free to Choose" series, his many years with the University of Chicago and the Hoover Institution, or his Nobel Prize in Economics. These will be covered, I expect, by others, and in great detail. Nor in this recollection do I want to touch upon his monetarism, his championing of school vouchers, the negative income tax, flexible exchange rates, anti-trust laws, his opposition to the gold standard and to privatizing roads and oceans. Libertarians have long disagreed with him on these issues, and this is not the time to delve into such longstanding controversies. Instead, I wish to focus on the positive, and to relate a few personal experiences I have had with him. </blockquote> Don
here’s the Radical Libertarian take from Mises.org

http://mises.org/story/2393

Milton Friedman died today at age 94. May he rest in peace.

I don’t want to discuss the Reagan and Thatcher “revolutions” he supposedly inspired. Nor his “Free to Choose” series, his many years with the University of Chicago and the Hoover Institution, or his Nobel Prize in Economics. These will be covered, I expect, by others, and in great detail. Nor in this recollection do I want to touch upon his monetarism, his championing of school vouchers, the negative income tax, flexible exchange rates, anti-trust laws, his opposition to the gold standard and to privatizing roads and oceans. Libertarians have long disagreed with him on these issues, and this is not the time to delve into such longstanding controversies.

Instead, I wish to focus on the positive, and to relate a few personal experiences I have had with him.

]]> By: Bring Back the Curre http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63124 Bring Back the Curre Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:59:21 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63124 nic, I think it was in 1975 and I remember him being interviewed by three economists of whom one, a young Barry Hughes, had any idea. nic,
I think it was in 1975 and I remember him being interviewed by three economists of whom one, a young Barry Hughes, had any idea.

]]> By: Jason Soon http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63104 Jason Soon Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:48:48 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63104 amusing picture of Friedman standing next to Stigler http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper408/stills/85iy1110.jpg amusing picture of Friedman standing next to Stigler
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper408/stills/85iy1110.jpg

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63103 Nicholas Gruen Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:43:32 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/11/17/milton-friedman-dies-at-94/#comment-63103 In (I think) 1974 Milton Friedman toured Australia preaching his gospel and Junie Morosi was overheard in the corridors of (the old) Parliament House saying "Who is this Milton Friedman and what have we got on him?" In (I think) 1974 Milton Friedman toured Australia preaching his gospel and Junie Morosi was overheard in the corridors of (the old) Parliament House saying “Who is this Milton Friedman and what have we got on him?”

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