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A new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning free market economist has much to teach about building a team of like-minded scholars within large institutions, and not just a brand.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
This is the story of a man, an intellectual, born after World War I, who spent studying his university years in New York and became acquainted and studied under German Jewish émigré who fled the Nazi regime in Germany, later becoming mentor and protégé.
(Archived document, may contain errors) Waging the War of Ideas: Why There Are No Shortcuts By John Blundell My goal today is to set a broad historical scene and remind us of those who fought in the trenches for freedom in the 1940s, '50s, -and '60s. I will d 'raw on the. strategic insights of F. A. Hayek and describe how those insights influenc e d the intellectual entrepreneurs of the era. Finally, I will draw some general insights and conclusions for the years ahead.
Murray Rothbard was at one time good friends with Gordon Tullock, one of the founders of the public choice analysis of government, and he also corresponded on friendly terms with James Buchanan, another of the founders. Both Rothbard and the public choice movement look with suspicion on claims by agents of the government to be acting for the common good, and both support the free market, though Rothbard does so to a much greater degree. Despite these points of agreement, Rothbard has some fundamental criticisms of public choice, and I’d like to look at one of these in this week’s … ...