How Milton Friedman Can Help Us Get Through Hurricane Milton
To give storm victims the best chance at recovery, let local knowledge and markets guide decisions.
To give storm victims the best chance at recovery, let local knowledge and markets guide decisions.
His ideas would leave us poorer and less free.
He was wrong to think "You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration."
The Parent Revolution author on lockdowns, teachers unions, and voter rage.
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
The economist and podcaster discusses his new memoir Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.
Joseph Stiglitz thinks redistribution and regulation are the road to freedom—he’s wrong.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The biographer of the Nobel laureate says he made us "free to choose" in areas far beyond economics.
Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?
We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.
Law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate whether libertarianism has been corrupted.
Law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum director Gene Epstein debate whether libertarianism has been corrupted.
The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
"If there is freedom, private property, rule of law, then Latin Americans thrive," says the social media star.
The authors of Mediocrity say it's well past time to end "factory schooling" and set kids free to learn.
The authors of The Individualists talk Rand, Friedman, Hayek, Rothbard, and the "struggle for the soul" of the libertarian movement.
Hungary's inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest in the European Union—and Orbán's price controls aren't helping.
Ironically, the FTX meltdown is the best illustration yet of why the world needs bitcoin.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The Burning Down the House author says the shift from Hayek's classical liberalism to Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism is a moral and practical disaster.
Businesses are all in favor of competition, tax cuts, and deregulation only until they aren't—meaning only until subsidies might benefit them.
It incentivizes high-noise, low-cost signaling rather than actual cultural changes.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
Can the government really cut everyone a check without bankrupting the country and killing labor force participation?
Prices are up all over the economy. Here are scenarios about what might happen next.
A Soho Forum debate about stakeholder value vs. shareholder value.
It's true that the freedom to make your own decisions comes with both benefits and consequences, but Krugman is squarely focused on just one side of that equation.
The peerless 90-year-old scholar is the subject of a new documentary and biography.
A new documentary and forthcoming biography pay tribute to the economist's intellectual fearlessness and commitment to empirical research.
How did Chile avoid becoming like Cuba? Milton Friedman's economic policy has something to do with it.
Forty years later, the libertarian Nobel laureate's PBS series is still winning hearts and minds.
Here's the inside story of Milton Friedman's path-breaking PBS series about economic and political freedom, from the man who produced it.
The New York Times touches on an old intra-libertarian debate over corporate responsibility.
The anti-voucher polemic is augmented by historical half-truths and selective omissions of countervailing evidence.
Whatever the latest polls say about Biden versus Trump, the Delaware Democrat almost surely has a better chance at winning the presidency than he does at undoing Milton Friedman's life work.
A billionaire progressive CEO and a dead free-market economist walk into a bar.
Politicians condemn price gougers, but students explain why "gouging" is good.
What the late, great libertarian economist really said about immigration and welfare
Restrictionists have distorted and weaponized the late, great economist's views
Emmanuel Macron wants teens to "value" their citizenship. Milton Friedman would be appalled.
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
Friday A/V Club: Before there was Arthur Jones, there was Mark Fairchild.