Vid: Happy 100th Birthday to Milton Friedman!

Milton Friedman would have turned 100 today.

Last year, Jim Epstein and I put together this video that only begins to hint at his massive contributions not just to libertarian thought and policy but to a broader intellectual culture. As I note in the video, "Milton Friedman gave us something much better than revealed truth: He showed us the process by which we might continue to indefinitely learn about our world and the human condition."

Take a look by clicking above and go here for more information.

Reason on Friedman.

Comments

[Mike M.]

Happy 100th birthday Miltie. And I like the site's new look, very cool!

[mr simple]

OMG! What is going on? This place is completely different and insane!

Well, maybe not that different, but definitely insane.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Who you tryin' to get crazy with, Reason? Don't you know I'm loco?

[Jesse James Dean]

Ilike money

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I haven't watched the video, but I'm gonna' go ahead and guess that the payroll tax wasn't in that list of accomplishments.

[Brandybuck]

It was the product of the times. Back in World War II, if you were a baker or brick layer you were given a gun and told to shoot Germans. If you were a scientist you were sent to Los Alamos to develop the nuclear bomb. And if you were an economist you were ordered to figure out ways to pay for it all.

[CE]

You know who else was just following orders?

[invisible furry hand]

With those glasses and jacket, Unca Milty looks like a hipster

[Rich]

The Friedman Century is just getting started."

Unfortunately, it'll probably be spread out over a millennium.

[Whiterun Guard]

I hardly think we'll last that long.

[Rich]

You sound like a Keynesian. 😉

[Restoras]

Change is bad! Me no like.

[JW]

What?! I didn't get him anything.

[Pip]

"Milton Friedman would have turned 100 today."

Fortunately for Milton, he didn't, which means he's not being subjected to the FUCKING EYE VOMIT that is reason.com.

[RBS]

Quit crying you giant fucking baby.

[generic Brand]

I'm scared. And confused. But mostly scared!

[John]

Did they eliminate the morning links?

[Bee Tagger]

Good question. If they have, what say we treat whatever the most recent post is at 9am as the de facto AM links?

[Bee Tagger]

Ouch, I think J.D. was waiting to see how quickly I'd propose traitorous solutions before putting the links up.

[Bardas Phocas]

Morning Links? You'll have to be happy with a sad-ass newsfeed in the corner.

[tarran]

This new style is an abortion.

People who are struggling with the tiny font size in chrome:

Right click on a comment, select inspect element, and set the font-size in reset-2.css to something between 101% and 105% according to taste.

You have to do it over and over again, but at least each page can be made legible.

[John]

I like small font. But this must be brutal on old people.

[RBS]

There are no "old" libertarians John.

[Pip]

Old libertarians never die, they just _______________________.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Or just ctrl+scrollwheel.

[Pip]

Cool trick. Thanks!

[Pro Libertate]

No issues yet in Firefox.

[SIV]

Maybe no issues for you.

[Pro Libertate]

No issues yet in my browser.

[Troy muy grande boner]

so what do you get a dead guy for his birthday?

[Pip]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE

[Matrix]

Just because your site is all new and spiffy doesn't mean you can forget the morning links!

[Suthenboy]

Friedman, Sowell, Hayek; geniuses championing liberty. There are others, but the list is short.

I will never fully understand why such people are so reviled. Perhaps, like our trolls here, their detractors have none of those qualities and hate is the manifestation of their envy.

There is not going to be any Friedman century Gillespie. We will always be a despised minority. We belong to a race, the vast majority of whom, consciously and willfully put chains on themselves so that their neighbors must wear them as well.

[fabius]

What? No Facebook commenting?

[kralspaces]

Interesting! You didn't build that pencil by yourself.

[Old Mexican]

-- You sound like a Keynesian. 😉

Guess who else was a Keynesian?

[Brandybuck]

He was not a Keynesian, he just admired Keynes. As did Hayek. Indeed, Keynes was a brilliant man. His style of economic aggregation was a useful tool in analyis. Key parts of it were wrong of course, but overall it was a useful abstraction.

The crime we call Keynesianism was not the result of Keynes, but of state sycophants who latched on to his "scientific" theory as an excuse for state spending sprees. His name is often invoked, but his actual prescriptions rarely are.

[Joe Esty]

Overrated. This is the man who also helped, along with Beardsley Ruml, to give us the mother of all statist instruments -- income tax withholding.

Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Walter Block, Robert Higgs are much more insightful and more powerful proponents of freedom.

Rothbard eviscerates Friedman in the monograph below.

http://mises.org/journals/jls/16_4/16_4_3.pdf