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Milton Friedman by Lanny Ebenstein

with Milton Friedmanvia Commentary
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The career of Milton Friedman, who died last November at ninety-four, provides a revealing insight into the course of American politics in the second half of the 20th century...

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The Power of Competition

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

In a number of recent posts, there have been comments questioning whether "the market will solve all problems," or whether competition works as advertised...

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Harvard Economist Is First Woman To Win Prestigious Award

with Milton Friedmanvia U.S. Department of State
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Susan C. Athey, a Harvard University economics professor, has joined an impressive list of economists by winning the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal for 2007...

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Black Swans

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, April 30, 2007

The latest EconTalk is a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the ideas in his two books, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan...

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Explaining markets to the masses

with Milton Friedmanvia Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Bob Chitester, the public TV producer famous for bringing his friend Milton Friedman's pro-capitalist series "Free to Choose" to PBS in 1980, is living proof that you don't have to be liberal or based on a seacoast to produce quality programs for PBS...

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Hedge funds: Good for America?

with Milton Friedmanvia Salon
Friday, April 27, 2007

From Thursday night's Democratic candidate's debate: "Do hedge funds make America any better?"

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Paul Krugman's Illuminating Smear: How the Right and the Libertarians Diverged

with Milton Friedmanvia TCS Daily
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Paul Krugman was recently called on to smear the recently deceased economist and libertarian polemicist Milton Friedman in the pages of the New York Review of Books...

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More Professors Are Lured Out of Ivory Tower to Street

with Milton Friedmanvia Wall Street Journal
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Investors' soaring appetite for alternative investments and exchange-traded funds is giving college professors a chance to break out of their ivory tower and test their academic theories -- in your portfolio...

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The Undercover Economist: Cost of living

via Financial Times
Friday, April 20, 2007

”Your money or your life.” The choice traditionally presented by the highwayman is supposed to have only one sensible answer...

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Edwards Flunks the Tax Test in Post-Reagan Age

with Michael J. Boskinvia Bloomberg
Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Internal Revenue Service gave taxpayers inconvenienced by the weekend's nor'easter until today to file their returns...

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