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29 Mar 2024, 7:28 pm
That does not suggest laissez faire in the style of Milton Friedman--it does suggest that public policy creates guard rails and expectations but does not drive micro-decision making. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 12:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, N.Y. [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:22 am
 The "Honestly" podcast host asks: "So, you didn’t anticipate that the party that said, 'We are the party of Paul Ryan, we’re the party of tax cuts, we’re the party of Milton Friedman,' would actually start to sound more liberal on economic policy? [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 6:56 pm by Stephen Halbrook
" You don't have to be Milton Friedman to understand that supply reflects demand. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 12:10 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  As academics began to think more broadly about the purpose of a corporation in the middle of the 20th century, the predominant view was that of Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, who strongly espoused the view that the sole purpose of a corporation was to maximize its profits and its value. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
An acolyte of Milton Friedman and other conservative scholars, Ramaswamy insists that the only purpose of business is money-making and that other corporate activity is conceptually ultra vires and wasteful. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 8:09 am by Dirk Auer
Politicized antitrust enforcement might seem like a great idea when your party is in power but, as Milton Friedman wisely observed, the mark of a strong system of government is that it operates well with the wrong person in charge. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on James E. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 5:00 am by Lazar Radic
Thinkers like Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Lionel Robbins, James Buchanan and, arguably, the more libertarian Ludwig von Mises and Bruno Leoni would fall into this group. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 5:45 am by Lawrence Solum
., the pursuit of more money [profit] as the raison d’etre of all capitalists [agreeing with Milton Friedman, among others]; the unparalleled power of capitalism to produce technological development; the constant displacement of human labor by technology, etc.); “exploitation” as a technical, rather than moral notion; the “fetishism” of commodities; the failure of the “falling rate of profit” account of the demise of the capitalism; the… [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by JB
Milton Friedman wanted to change society just as much as John Rawls did. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 11:37 am
Once it became clear that the problem extended all the way up the tax food chain, and armed with a new and more appealing discursive model (along with principles consonant with high sounding liberal democratic expectations) the challenge of reimagining fairness in tax became more respectable and now more compelling (in the sense that policy changes are coming at the top). [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 6:22 am by Kevin LaCroix
”   Bainbridge also quotes remarks that the economist Milton Friedman made back in the 70’s; Friedman said that liberals of that era argued that society was plagued by hot of ills that “too urgent to wait on the slow course of political processes, that the exercise of social responsibility by businessmen is a quicker and surer way to solve pressing current problems. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Included: a discussion of the seeming, but in the end illusory, parallels between Reich’s early-1960s writing interests and those of economist Milton Friedman. [read post]
5 May 2019, 1:13 pm by Jon Roland
Many of the authors of books are pushing precious metals.But is this an appeal to fools? [read post]
9 Sep 2018, 11:17 am by Stuart Kaplow
Eradicating meat from the bottom line will not appeal to most U.S. companies as a good ESG policy or otherwise. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 10:43 am by Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
During the 2016 presidential race, an op ed in the New York Times by Jacob S. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 8:52 pm
I am delighted to set out below some thoughts on a recently published book on corporate social responsibility (CSR). [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 2:19 pm by Ilya Somin
If the only true “libertarians” are property rights absolutists, Wilkinson is able to exclude the vast majority of thinkers who are usually considered libertarian, including Milton Friedman, F.A. [read post]