Comments on: Not A Dismal Scientist: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Milton Friedman Dies, But His Ideas Won’t http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965 Interpreting the Real Estate Economy Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:01:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay Thompson http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965&cpage=1#comment-36837 Jay Thompson Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:11:44 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965#comment-36837 <p>We spent half a semester in my grad school economics class just reviewing Capitalism and Freedom and comparing/contrasting Friedman to John Maynard Keynes. It was probably my favorite class in either undergrad or grad school.</p> <p>RIP Milton Friedman</p> We spent half a semester in my grad school economics class just reviewing Capitalism and Freedom and comparing/contrasting Friedman to John Maynard Keynes. It was probably my favorite class in either undergrad or grad school.

RIP Milton Friedman

]]> By: Matt Carter http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965&cpage=1#comment-36830 Matt Carter Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:48:42 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965#comment-36830 <p>The News Hour with Jim Lehrer put together a nice piece including clips of interviews with Friedman over the years, and a discussion that included one of his former students, Edward Snyder, now the dean of the University of Chicago School of Business.</p> <p>Snyder said that when the Berlin Wall fell, George Will wrote, "The Cold War is over; the University of Chicago has won." Snyder said if that's the case, "General Friedman" was the leader of the University of Chicago.</p> <p>(Hmmm... does that make <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile" rel="nofollow">Chile the University of Chicago's Vietnam</a>?).</p> <p>Another economist, <a href="http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/06.11.12.html" rel="nofollow">David Warsh</a>, said Friedman will be remembered more as a public intellectual than as an economist (like Galbraith?). Warsh said Friedman's TV series came out at the same time as Galbraith's "The Age of Uncertainty" and blew it out of the water.</p> <p>I have to agree with Friedman's take on urban renewal, at least in San Francisco, where the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/program/index.html" rel="nofollow">Fillmore district</a> still bears the scars of clear cutting by planners in the '50s and '60s.</p> <p>You can still watch the News Hour piece on Friedman <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/july-dec06/friedman_11-16.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> The News Hour with Jim Lehrer put together a nice piece including clips of interviews with Friedman over the years, and a discussion that included one of his former students, Edward Snyder, now the dean of the University of Chicago School of Business.

Snyder said that when the Berlin Wall fell, George Will wrote, “The Cold War is over; the University of Chicago has won.” Snyder said if that’s the case, “General Friedman” was the leader of the University of Chicago.

(Hmmm… does that make Chile the University of Chicago’s Vietnam?).

Another economist, David Warsh, said Friedman will be remembered more as a public intellectual than as an economist (like Galbraith?). Warsh said Friedman’s TV series came out at the same time as Galbraith’s “The Age of Uncertainty” and blew it out of the water.

I have to agree with Friedman’s take on urban renewal, at least in San Francisco, where the Fillmore district still bears the scars of clear cutting by planners in the ’50s and ’60s.

You can still watch the News Hour piece on Friedman here.

]]> By: Of Mountains & Molehills http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965&cpage=1#comment-36822 Of Mountains & Molehills Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:43:58 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=965#comment-36822 <p>A bad year for economic icons. John Kenneth Galbraith and Friedman make two -- who is number three? They always die in threes, right?</p> A bad year for economic icons. John Kenneth Galbraith and Friedman make two — who is number three? They always die in threes, right?

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