The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore has an article that begins: "With each passing week that the assault against global capitalism continues in Washington, I become more nostalgic for one missing voice: Milton Friedman's." It's a well-executed piece and well-worth reading, but on the other hand, isn't one of the things missed about Friedman that he wouldn't have sat around in the middle of a great crisis moaning about how much he missed Adam Smith or David Ricardo or some other figure from a previous generation? "Nostalgic" is the right word. It's hard to see how this line of argument will really resonate with the Obama generation, which could use a Milton Friedman or two of its own.
Missing Milton Friedman
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/05/missing-milton-friedman
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