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Milton Friedman

My Friendly Fights with Dr. Friedman

September 25, 2007

The Rational, The Relentless – Liberty Magazine – September 2007
by Mark Skousen
“To keep the fish that they carried on long journeys lively and fresh, sea captains used to introduce an eel into the barrel. In the economics profession, Milton Friedman is that eel.”— Paul A. Samuelson
Milton Friedman, the intellectual architect of the free-market reforms of [...]

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A Tribute to Milton Friedman

November 28, 2006

I was at the New Orleans Investment Conference when I learned that free-market economist extraordinaire Milton Friedman, died on November 16. He was a dear friend. I was probably the last person to go out to lunch with Milton. We met at his favorite restaurant in San Francisco, where I showed him a picture of [...]

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Pulling Down the Keynesian Cross

June 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty
Economics on Trial
June 2001
by Mark Skousen
“The circle had come right round; it was as though Keynes had never been.”
-Robert Skidelsky1
“Textbooks have to be rewritten in the aftermath of each scientific revolution.”
-Thomas S. Kuhn2
In his third and final volume on John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky comes to the shocking conclusion that the Keynesian [...]

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An Enemy Hath Done This

September 1, 2000

Economics on Trial – Ideas on Liberty – SEPTEMBER 2000
by Mark Skousen
“Government measures . . . give individuals an incentive to misuse and misdirect resources and distort the investment of new savings.”
- MILTON FRIEDMAN 1
Several months ago, I had the opportunity of speaking before a Miami chapter of Legatus, a group of Catholic business leaders [...]

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