![]() ![]() He wisely and astutely challenges philosophers, economists, and policy-makers who treat the ethics and politics of political and democratic institutions in isolation from economic institutions. ![]() First, Friedman has a contribution to make to philosophical debates on freedom, and the link between political and economic freedom. ![]() Friedman’s work on freedom is worth engaging for a number of reasons. Despite this influence, there remains a dearth of scholarship on Friedman’s social and political philosophy, particularly among philosophers and political theorists. and throughout the world, even by agencies, such as the IMF, that Friedman himself opposed. This work, perhaps more than any other, provides the central and agenda-setting talking points for so-called neo-liberal political and economic reforms championed by the Republican party in the U.S., the Conservative Party from the time of Thatcher in the United Kingdom ( Childs, 2006 Reitan, 2003), Instead, he produced some of the most influential philosophical work on the role of government in a free society. Friedman did not restrict his writing to technical questions in economic theory. After John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman is arguably the most influential economist of the twentieth century. ![]()
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