Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Why There Is No New Milton Friedman

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Abstract

Why is there no Milton Friedman today? The new structure of things—or lack of structure—makes it hard for someone to emerge as a focal representative of classical liberalism. But every day, innumerable souls breathe new vitality into the cogent perspective that Friedman and others gave to human civilization.