Milton Friedman Day

by Virginia Postrel  •  Jan 26, 2007 at 2:14 pm

http://www.dynamist.com/1883/milton-friedman-day

The producers of Free to Choose write:

Monday, January 29 is Milton Friedman Day. Numerous events are scheduled. Of note:

The University of Chicago Memorial is being streamed live via http://www.ideachannel.tv at 2:00 p.m. CST (GMT -6 hours). This site will also have available an exclusive audio discussion featuring Nobel Prize winners Gary Becker and Ken Arrow discussing Friedman and his ideas. You can also view the Free to Choose series here at no charge.

The Friedman biography, The Power of Choice, premieres on PBS. Check local listings here. DVDs of the program are available via Idea Channel.

For the full listing of events, go to http://www.miltonfriedmanday.org.

Paul Krugman calls Friedman "a great economist and a great man." in this essay in The New York Review of Books. (Via Greg Mankiw.)

Reason's Brian Doherty selects Friedman quotes from three decades of contributions to the magazine.

Here's the agenda, with papers, of a 2003 Dallas Fed conference, "The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century."