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Philip Cross: Milton Friedman, keeper of the conservative flame
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoJennifer Burns’ new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, reviews the economist’s...
Free Market Book Misstates the History of Free Market Thought
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Louis XIV and Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert at the Royal Academy of Sciences;...
Matthew Lau: Tory competition policy needs to channel Milton Friedman
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoIn a 13-minute video released by the Conservative party, Ryan Williams, the shadow minister for...
Corporations were never supposed to write the rules of the game. Now they need to help make them...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoIn 1962, Milton Friedman said “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use...
Oft-quoted axiom 'Funeral by funeral, theory advances' applies here
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1970, Paul Samuelson became the first American awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
William Watson: All Friedmanites now? If only!
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoIn 1914, the poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago “hog butcher for the world … stormy, husky, brawling … city of the big shoulders.” In economics, it’s...
Respect the lag? CEOs turned more bearish this quarter
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoWhat are CEOs thinking right now? In 1959, economist Milton Friedman infamously told Congress that...
The 74 Interview: Cara Fitzpatrick on ‘The Death of Public School’
The 74 via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe landscape of American education has undergone an unmistakable change since the emergence of...
Lies, damned lies and "corporate bulls**t": A consumer's guide to bad-faith arguments
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoClimate Protest; Business As Usual JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images Corporate bulls**t is...
How to better understand Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThis is the full transcript for season 4, episode 7 of the Quartz Obsession podcast on the invisible...