November 17, 2006

Milton Friedman tribute- 50 links

I am an unabashed follower of Friedman and his policies. Therefore as a mark of tribute to his contributions to economics, this post will include wsj articles, links to articles and a link to the Free to choose series official, unofficial.

Gary Becker and Posner on Friedman

Bloomberg article on Friedman , FT Milton Friedman, economist, dies aged 94 , SFGate Milton Friedman, the watch and me

LA Times article(long and reasonably detailed, better than wsj's.) , The Times UK- Chicago boy who gave monetarism to the world

NYtimes Milton Friedman, Free Markets Theorist, Dies at 94 , AUSTAN GOOLSBEE- Charismatic Economist Who Loved to Argue

WSJ- Milton Friedman: In His Own Words Forbes-Milton Friedman: An Open Book

Tcsdaily.com- Tennis with Milton

Mercurynews- Milton Friedman felt vindicated by history Friedman's last interview on nov 5, 2006

Opinionjournal.com interview of Friedman by Tunku Varadarajan

Foxnews- 'Your World' Interview With Economist Milton Friedman

Audio and Video

Powerline.com- There are a few videos here- All except one(PBS Open Mind) are from the free to choose series. The PBS Open Mind video is 30 min. Direct link to video

google video- Charlie Rose interviewing Milton Friedman- 440MB. I have downloaded the video, well worth the 1 $.

LibertyFund-
A Conversation with Milton Friedman 1:12:00 83MB mp3

Russ Roberts interview with Friedman,
Part 1 audio transcript and Part 2 audio transcript

Capitalism and Freedom revisited-
http://www.apee.org/friedman.html

Reason magazine links
Best of Both Worlds Milton Friedman reminisces about his career as an economist and his lifetime "avocation" as a spokesman for freedom.

Civil Warrior Capitalism and Friedman

The Father of Modern School Reform

Can We Bank on the Federal Reserve?

New Perspectives Quarterly Magazine-
Free Markets and the End of History


"Economic Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom" by Milton Friedman Delivered November 1, 1991

Milton Friedman on the "War on Drugs


Friedman's 90th birthday -
Economically speaking, Friedman No. 1 Uchicago- chibus Friedman Celebrates 90th Birthday


Milton Friedman and India
A Memorandum to the Government of India 1955 To understand why this is significant, see video 2 of the Free to Choose series. Milton Friedman on the Nehru/Mahalanobis Plan(pdf)


Friedman and flat taxes in Europe , Lessons of smaller states , New Europe’s Boomtown Pioneer of the 'flat tax' taught the East to thrive Flat tax champion who ignored the economists
For more see http://logtk.blogspot.com/2006/09/estonia-and-free-market.html
Opinionjournal- Israel Gets a Taste of Friedman


Blogs on Friedman (many of the links above and below are taken from various blogs.)

http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/?p=1322 (some of the updated links in this post are from prestpundit.)

Faustablog.com on Milton Friedman
http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=269

Gregory Mankiw - The Economist of the Century

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/11/when_i_think_of.html

http://indianeconomy.org/2006/11/16/milton-friedman-has-died/

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2006/11/testimony-and-tribute-to-milton.html

http://www.artdiamondblog.com/archives/2006/11/milton_friedman_1.html

http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2006/11/milton_friedman.html

http://istanbulsunset.blogspot.com/2006/11/farewell-uncle-milty.html

http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2006/11/remembering-milton-friedman.html

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