Why Do We Use Money?
19 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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The White Ignorance of Milton Friedman
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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White people have the luxury of not thinking about race if they don’t want to. Marginalized people, on the other hand, are forced to think about their own oppression all the time if they want to get by in the world. One way to think about this luxury is what philosopher Charles Mills calls “white ignorance.” In scholarship, one way the white ignorance is displayed is by white scholars, whom Critical Race Theorist Richard Delgado called “imperial scholars,” who ignore the scholarship of people of color. The poster child for white ignorance may well be Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman was one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century. The leading light of the “Chicago School of Economics,” the most influential economics department in the world, Nobel prize-winner in Economics in 1976. If there were an All-Star team of economists, Friedman would be in the…
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Milton Friedman Interview with Gary Becker (2003)
16 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Friedman on Becker
15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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From James Heckman’s notes on Becker
In Depth with Milton Friedman w/ Q&A (2000)
14 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman – Why Economists Disagree
08 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman Speaks – Myths That Conceal Reality
06 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman on Donahue – 1979 (First Appearance)
04 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman at Hillsdale College 2006
27 May 2019 Leave a comment
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PRIMO NUTMEG #174: David D. Frìedman
26 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Only a coward assaults an 86 year old Milton Friedman
22 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman Speaks – Is Capitalism Humane?
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
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2. Tell a New Story – Doughnut Economics or @KateRaworth is a @MontPelerinSoc conspiracy theorist
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
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