Free Thinking To the End
By David S. Broder (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/11/06):
The big names of the economics profession and the best business journalists have offered deserved praise to Milton Friedman, the great man of 20th-century economics who died last week at 94. I would like to add a footnote about his political shrewdness and his partner in a life that brightened so many others' experience.
I had two encounters with Milton Friedman, at an interval of more than 50 years. The first came when I was a student at the University of Chicago, where he was a young member of the economics faculty.
The department in which he taught had a split personality -- left and right -- and students were forced to struggle with the contradictions.… Seguir leyendo »