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Originally Posted by diebitter
Friedman is interesting. He was historically significant, and when economies improved, his significance waned, but now he's bang right back up there!
I'm hoping I'm saying something about the transitory nature of 'significance' in the flow of history.
The current great debate in the United States today, and also in other places in the world, is simply whether Friedman was right and capitalism (and individual freedom) is the way to go. We see this in Wisconsin, and we see it in leading European countries that have recently elected more conservative governments.
But we're also seeing it in the Middle East where many people want the individual freedom that Friedman so advocated. He also completely changed the way I thought (when much younger), and we have modeled much of this website on these same ideas.
Best wishes,
Mason