In this issue:
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?
A symposium co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a Milton Friedman were born in the 1960s or 1970s. Is it conceivable that such a person would develop into a ‘Milton Friedman’ like we know the actual Friedman to have been, including his academic eminence and his eloquent and influential advocacy of classical liberalism? Here leading economists address the question: Why is there no Milton Friedman today?
Contributions:
- John Blundell
- David Colander
- Tyler Cowen
- Richard Epstein
- James K. Galbraith
- J. Daniel Hammond
- David R. Henderson
- Daniel Houser
- Steven Medema
- Sam Peltzman
- Richard Posner
- Robert Solow
Other paper
Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier: Martin Paldam reflects on these trends in empirical macroeconomics.
EJW Audio
- Catherine Hakim on Work-Lifestyle Preference and Erotic Capital
- Hugh Rockoff on Free-Banking Episodes
Call for papers
EJW fosters open exchange. We welcome proposals and submissions of diverse viewpoints.