Posted on 07/17/2006 2:20:46 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
I'm going to look for this on Netflix. I had a economics class based upon this series for one quarter back in 80/81 during my sophomore year at the University of Oregon. Each class we would watch an episode and then there would be a debate between a conservative and liberal from the Eugene community. Freedom was hard to argue against.
There are also some videos of Uncle Milty interviews over at Uncommon Knowledge:
Economics and War (2001)
Pay It Backwards (2001)
The High and the Mighty (2001)
THE ECONOMY'S NEW CLOTHES: MILTON FRIEDMAN ON THE NEW ECONOMY (2000)
MILTON'S PARADISE GAINED: MILTON FRIEDMAN'S ADVICE FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT (2000)
Take it to the Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (1999)
Presidential Report Card: Milton Friedman on the State of the Union (1999)
Awesome! I can actually watch those!
I don't understand this "torrent" stuff at all.
Thanks for posting the links and info!
I always thought the anarcho-capitalist crowd (which includes Milton Friedman's son!) was too rough on Friedman. From their perspective, he's a statist and a socialist, but the fact remains that Mises, Rothbard, AND Friedman all advocate a world significantly freer than what we have currently. Considering that most academics still cling to some form of Marxism, I think Friedman can be forgiven for not seeing things through the praxeological lens.
And Friedman is a master at communicating his ideas clearly to the public without seeming like a nutjob. I'm not sure the Austrians have been as successful at that, and I speak as someone who has great respect for them. As a non-economist, I like hearing ideas from all the free market schools.
Ping me please.
IIRC Free to Choose was produced by a PBS station in Erie Pennsylvania. I do not know how extensively the series was shown nationally. I saw it on the Buffalo NY outlet.
One of the discussion segments in a later program introduced me to Thomas Sowell, for which I continue to be very grateful.
Free to Choose was a big deal on PBS stations all across the United States in 1980. Since then, it's been shown on various networks all around the world, and it was updated and reshown in 1990. The series introduced Friedman as a public intellectual to a wide audience.
The book that was created along with the series is also excellent and very palatable for those not well-versed in economics.
How is it that a government of the people, supposedly, does things which a very large fraction of the people would really prefer not to have done, such as overtax them, over govern them, over regulate them?
Now Thomas Friedman, there is an ignorant idiotic simpleton
Bump...rest in peace Milton
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