November 16th, 2006“I am a limited-government libertarian”
Milton Friedman died today.
You may not know who that is, but I guarantee he’s had an impact on your life with his ideas.
NPR was discussing his death, and what he did for economics, while I was on my way home. I learned about him in high school… I had a crazy teacher who preached Friedman’s laissez-faire economics like there was no tomorrow. It wasn’t until I got older (and had to live in the real world) that I realized the importance of his theories.
From the Boston Globe: “Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who played a key role in the intellectual resurgence of capitalism and the global shift to free-market economics in the final third of the 20th century, died today at a San Francisco hospital. He was 94.
In a 90th-birthday tribute, the columnist George F. Will described Dr. Friedman as ‘the most consequential public intellectual of the 20th century.'”
i don’t know who he is but yay economics. i guess.
Comment by wendykat — November 17, 2006 @ 12:14 pm