Posted by Nicholas at November 27, 2006 11:34 AMIf you're a libertarian and are unaware, by now, that the world's premiere free market economist, Milton Friedman, died last week, it must be because you live in a cave or use the same Internet service I do.
We have much to thank "Uncle Miltie" for (my younger readers may not know that the nickname was first applied to the wildly popular 1950s comedian Milton Berle, a contemporary and competitor to Sid Caesar). Friedman and his wife Rose probably did more than anyone to popularize the concept of markets unconstrained by anything except the laws of nature that happen to apply to them. He was a big part of an intellectual revolution so huge, and so threatening to those — like the Bush family — who exist only to control the lives of others, that it gave accidental birth to the hideous reaction we are living through today.
L. Neil Smith, "Of The Dead Speak Nothing But Truth", Libertarian Enterprise, 2006-11-26
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