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Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« on: July 31, 2008, 03:59:23 AM »
July 31 marks the 96th birthday of Milton Friedman, who passed away in 2006. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Medal of Science, Friedman advanced the principles of individual choice by popularizing ideas like school vouchers and private retirement accounts. Through essays, speeches, and books such as Capitalism and Freedom, and Free to Choose, Friedman championed the ideas of liberty. Every other year, the Cato Institute presents the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advancing human freedom.

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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2008, 05:04:38 AM »
Happy b-day, MF!

Milton & Rose were very influential in my philosophical  political / economic development.
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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2008, 06:05:47 AM »
[Federal economic planning andmanagement voice] Milton WHO?...... [/Federal economic planning andmanagement voice]
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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2008, 06:09:43 AM »
I listen to the EconTalk podcast every week.  The only two that I don't delete weekly are the two interviews with Friedman from shortly before his death.

My personal favorite idea of his was to fire everyone at the fed, and replace them with a desktop computer that incremented the money supply by a few percent each year.  Brilliant.
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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2008, 06:12:17 AM »
Do you have a link to this EconoTalk podcast?
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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2008, 06:19:47 AM »
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/milton_friedman/index.html

The host of that podcast has a regular cast of really, really bright people, most of whom heard Friedman's lectures in graduate school.  It seems like all the rational, intelligent economists knew Friedman, and then there's everybody else...
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Re: Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2008, 12:03:45 PM »
Quote from: jfruser on July 31, 2008, 04:04:38 AM
Happy b-day, MF!

Wow, that just came out wrong......
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