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  • Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics

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    The New Republic: The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression Angus Burgin recently wrote The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression which looks at the influence of F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman in the 20th Century. Nobel economist Robert Solow reviews the book in The New Republic. JUST AS I…

  • Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94

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    From Business Week: Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94 Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94. Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis. He…