Author: one80Admin

13 May

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Silvestri interviews McCloskey about her forthcoming book, ‘Beyond Behaviorism, Positivism, and Neo-Institutionalism in Economics’, critical of recent economics, especially of neo-institutionalism. Neo-institutionalism uses the ugly character ‘Herr Max U’ as its central idea: the elevation of Prudence to the only virtue. Institutions are mainly intermediate,...

11 May

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Welfare is supposed to be for poor people -- but BILLIONS go to rich people (bailouts, subsidies, taxpayer-funded special grants).----To make sure you receive the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg----Rich people got lots of extra money recently from government "relief" efforts....

11 May

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May 10, 2021 Print Atlas Network celebrates the life of a dear friend and intellectual titan of the movement to advance human freedom. The movement to advance human freedom and flourishing has lost one of its most effective communicators. Bob Chitester (1937-2021), a kind and gentle, persistent and...

11 May

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetI am deeply saddened to learn that Bob Chitester just lost his long battle with cancer. Bob is most famous for conceiving, and producing, Milton Friedman’s remarkable 1980 PBS series, Free To Choose. But Bob did much, much more in addition. He believed...

11 May

Posted at 07:17h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Bob Chitester, who produced the famous Free to Choose series for PBS, died on Saturday, May 8. I gave an appreciation of him here and highlighted some of his earlier work here. We first met when he invited me to a dinner that followed a meeting of...