Comments on: Milton Friedman, 1912-2006

By: Misterbixby

Misterbixby — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:15:45 +0000

A great man has passed, the founder of the original Chicago Boys. Please limn his photo above in black as you did for President Reagan.

By: Jay Manifold

Jay Manifold — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:50:57 +0000

“The man of the eternal smile.” (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)

By: prados

prados — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:55:36 +0000

El hombre de la eterna sonrisa

By: d

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:55:44 +0000

I’m sure the people of Chile mourn his passing.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:40 +0000

One of the greatest men of the century.

When he and Hayek started the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, they were the tiniest community of outliers amidst a general consensus in favor of socialism. They did not despair. The facts and the theory were there. The carried on, for decades, and they had an impact.

Friedman did a superb job all up and down the spectrum of economics, from technical work comprehensible only to specialists, down all the way to his TV show Free to Choose, which any intelligent person could understand. He was a University of Chicago empiricist. Theory had to be grounded in observable fact. His Monetary History of the United States was a monster of factual historical research, a foundation that others could use and build on.

The world is more free, more proseperous and I will assert happier place due to his unremitting efforts.

Rest in Peace, sir.

By: Roger Arango

Roger Arango — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:06:22 +0000

A true giant and brilliant supporter of freedom and freedom’s relationship to capitalism. Condolences to his widow and family. RIP

By: Shannon Love

Shannon Love — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:56:35 +0000

I first became aware of Milton Friedman as a teenager circa 1980 when I read an article or editorial of his in which he made the claim that the “energy crisis” was not caused by an actual shortage of petroleum or other energy sources but rather by political interference in energy markets.

He was widely denounced as a loon.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:03:50 +0000

The FT obit is superb.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:59:37 +0000

Uncle Miltie has passed? Say it ain’t so! I just heard him by podcast last week.

Is this what EK-R means by “Denial is the first stage of grief?”