Who was Milton Friedman?
Friedman’s Legacy
The Politicized “Science”, The Economists (I). Chapter 5 of Triumph of the Market By Edward S. Herman.
Elton Rayack, Not So Free to Choose: The Political Economy of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan, 1987
Paul Krugman, “Who Was Milton Friedman?,” The New York Review of Books, February 15, 2007
William Greider, “Friedman’s Cruel Legacy,” The Nation, November 22, 2006
Asia Sentinel, “Milton Friedman’s Hong Kong Misconceptions,” November 27, 2006
James K. Galbraith, “The Collapse of Monetarism and the Irrelevance of the New Monetary Consensus,” June 24, 2008
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, June 24, 2008
Responses to The Shock Doctrine:
Doug Henwood, “Awe, Shocks!,” Left Business Observer, March 2008
Jonathan Chait, “Dead Left,” The New Republic, July 30, 2008
Michael Hardt, “Capitalism: The Violence of Capital,” New Left Review, February 2008
James Arnt Aune, “How to Read Milton Friedman: Corporate Social Responsibility and Today’s Capitalisms,” in The Debate Over Corporate Social Responsibility
For links to articles in support of Friedman’s legacy, see Cato Institute and Milton Friedman (1912-2006).
Chile and Latin America
Milton Friedman, “Letter to General Pinochet on Our Return from Chile and His Reply,” April 21, 1975
Orlando Letelier, “The Chicago Boys in Chile,” The Nation, August 28, 1976
Elton Rayack, Not So Free to Choose: The Political Economy of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan, Chapter 5, 1987
William J. Barber, “Chile con Chicago: A Review Essay,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 1995
Greg Grandin, “Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire,” Counterpunch, November 17, 2006
Brian Doherty, “The Economist and the Dictator,” Reason.com, December 15, 2006
Alejandro Reuss, “Milton Friedman’s ‘Chilean Miracle,’” Dollars & Sense, January/February 2007
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, June 24, 2008
Deconstructing Neo-liberalism
Dani Rodrik, “Shleifer the (counter-)revolutionary,” Dani Rodrik’s Weblog, February 23, 2008
Dani Rodrik, “No more laundry lists,” Dani Rodrik, The Guradian, July 10, 2008
Dani Rodrik, “No cheers for globalization,” The Guardian, July 31, 2008
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Joseph Stiglitz monthly column in Project Syndicate