Being involved with $SECRET_PROJECT I have had little time to track regular news and managed to miss Milton Friedman’s death.
I’ve read a couple of his books, my favorite being Money Mischief.
Friedman’s view, government had the opposite obligation: to keep its
hands off the economy, to let the free market do its work. He was a
spiritual heir to Adam Smith, the 18th-century founder of the science
of economics and proponent of laissez-faire: that government governs
best which governs least.
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