Milton Friedman "Freedom to Choose"

[barbaro]

Each serious is about 1 hour.

He provides some very logical points.


Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 1 of 10 Power of the Market

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 2 of 10 The Tyranny of Control

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 3 of 10 Anatomy of a Crisis

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 4 of 10 From Cradle to Grave

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 5 of 10 Ceated Equal

Missing Part 6

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 7 of 10 Who Protects the Consumer

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 8 of 10 Who Protects the Worker

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 9 of 10 How to Cure Inflation

Milton Friedman PBS Free to Choose 1980 Vol 10 of 10 How to Stay Free

[sabang]

Heck Barb, I'm sure he makes some good points but all them one hour series are a bit much for me.

Friedman has a bit of a credibility gap these days because he was one of the champions of Monetarist economics, which on it's own isn't necessarily bad- but it led to an irresponsible deregulatory zeal based on the assumed self regulating 'power of the market', and thus contributed in a big way to the subsequent financial crisis. The other big contributing factor, loose monetary policy, is not advocated by Monetarists- but it is them that still presided over the Feds disastrous policy.

I think maybe the lesson is, when Politicians get into bed with a particular school of economic theory, watch out.

[Jet Gorgon]

Ah, I always loved this Miltie quote:

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.