Why is there no Milton Friedman today?

Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?

A symposium co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a Milton Friedman were born in the 1960s or 1970s. Is it conceivable that such a person would develop into a ‘Milton Friedman’ like we know the actual Friedman to have been, including his academic eminence and his eloquent and influential advocacy of classical liberalism? Here leading economists address the question: Why is there no Milton Friedman today?

Contributions:

• John Blundell
• David Colander
• Tyler Cowen
• Richard Epstein
• James K. Galbraith
• J. Daniel Hammond
• David R. Henderson
• Daniel Houser
• Steven Medema
• Sam Peltzman
• Richard Posner
• Robert Solow

Well worth a read.