milton friedman

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.” – Christopher Hitchens Most collections of greed quotes are soundly against the concept of greed. Why, then, are we presenting quotes in favor of one of the...

Libertarianism typically isn’t something you’re taught in the American public education system. This makes sense. Just like the priests who teach at Catholic school might not hand out copies of God Is Not Great, so too would government employees shrink away from a curriculum centered around the...

Talking about libertarian politics will likely leave many people confused. It’s no secret that libertarians have fierce independent streaks, which makes it next to impossible for them to organize in large groups. Large splinter factions abound, all with their own infighting, disagreements...

Hailed as the godfather of conservative libertarianism, Milton Friedman quotes openly attacked Keynesianism in an era when most economists widely accepted its fundamental premises. Friedman won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis...

http://miltonfriedman.blogspot.com/ This is a 1980s PBS series called Free To Choose in which Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman goes through historical examples of successes of capitalism and failures of central planning. For the last half of the episodes, he debates professors...