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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Jan \ parent \ on: The Cultural War in Economic Science Politics_And_Law

Yeah, as a utilitarian, Friedman was only ever weakly attached to the cause of freedom. I don't think we should go out of our way to detract from or ignore the good he did, though.

23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 24 Jan

<scarcasm>OK, I think he did great when he promulgated the idea for withholding taxes during WWII. That was really a step forward for freedom and liberty! </scarcasm> He did do good after he took a step back and thought about what he had done in the past, though. I still can’t get past monetarism, though.

BTW, did you manage to read the whole speech? Amazing!!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 24 Jan

I haven't had time to read the whole thing.

I started reading through it and saw you had posted it, but then got distracted with other stuff.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 24 Jan

Yeah, I saw someone else had posted it when I was halfway through posting it and reading it to find the core nut. @Roll posted it about 13 minutes before I did but did his usual job on it, so I decided I had enough value added to post over him without compunctions.

The lecture was really amazing! It tore down mainstream economics in the best way possible and gave reasons why praxeology is the true economic science.