So many insights, memories, and tributes have been lavished upon the late great Milton Friedman since his death on November 16th that we can add little. We suspect, however, that many Gadfly readers are acquainted primarily with Friedman's extraordinary contributions to education policy. He was, quite simply, the intellectual and spiritual father of school choice in America. You may be less well acquainted with Friedman's immense influence on modern economics, on American prosperity, on human freedom itself, and on our thinking about government's proper role (and limitations). If you would like to learn more, we provide links below to six of the most perceptive (and variegated) "online" commentaries on Friedman and his work. There's also a terrific longer piece by John O'Sullivan, "Economist on a White Horse," in the December 18th print edition of National Review if you have access to that fine publication. And you can find Dr. Friedman's own amazing resume on the website of the foundation that he and his wife Rose founded and that is named for them.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa; William F. Buckley, Jr.; Thomas Sowell; Henry G. Manne; Lawrence H. Summers; Robert H. Frank
