Milton Friedman’s sad passing reminds me of King Theoden’s last words in The Return of the King:
You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.
…and makes me very glad that I ran after him so he’d autograph my copy of Capitalism and Freedom.
Nov 17 2006
My reply to my critics is up at Cato Unbound, and the followup conversation is now underway. My favorite part: To turn Friedman's argument around, I think that he's the one with an unrealistic, stilted psychology that's "vulnerable to caricature and dismissal." Friedman seems to think that everyone wants to get the r...
Nov 17 2006
Donna K. Ginther and Shulamit Kahn write, Children create a marked divergence between men and women. For science as a whole, the presence of a pre-kindergarten aged child lowers women’s likelihood of having a tenure track job by 8.1 percent. The presence of a grade school child has no effect. In contrast, for men, p...
Nov 16 2006
Milton Friedman's sad passing reminds me of King Theoden's last words in The Return of the King: You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed. ...and makes me very glad that I ran after him so he'd autograph my copy of Capitalism and Freedom.
READER COMMENTS
Caliban Darklock
Nov 16 2006 at 8:09pm
You are such a geek.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😉
Dr. Tensor
Nov 17 2006 at 1:28pm
Kling beat you to punch Caplan.
Which can mean only one thing: Arnold is better than you! pppphhhbbbttttt 😛
Daniel Klein
Nov 17 2006 at 1:58pm
Cool that Bryan alludes to King Theoden, but the words don’t really fit Milton’s passing. Unlike the case with Theoden, with Milton there was never any doubt about his gloriously place alongside the forefathers.
Arnold Kriegbaum
Nov 18 2006 at 8:42am
I enjoyed your little aside on running after Sir Milton once to have him sign your copy of his book. It hit me in a new way that a free person living in an a free world is actually expected to know more about themselves and then actually live based on that knowledge.
My father (who introduced me to FREE TO CHOOSE when I was in jr. high school back in the seventies)and I have been having a lot of discussions about economics (hey, common groung is common ground)and how economics gained traction when it moved beyond the realm of mathematics. Humand behavior in markets is about… desire. Just like your actually knowing that you really did want to risk something and get your book signed.
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