Anti-Friedman Commentaries
2 min readNov 6, 2023
Milton Friedman’s (1912–2006) good repute among American conservatives is the result of a monstrous hoax. Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has thrown the U.S. economy into a 1930s-level of depression by applying Friedman’s monetary theories, and Ronald Reagan has embraced Friedman and his associates as advisers, Americans have two alternatives: either we will destroy the hoax, or the hoax will destroy us.
- Milton’s Myth #1: Free Enterprise Equals Economic Freedom by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #2: Free Enterprise Promotes Political Freedom by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #3: Free Enterprise is Efficient by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #4: Free Enterprise Reduces Discrimination by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #5: Free Enterprise Is Fair by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #6: Markets Equal Economic Freedom by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #7: Markets Are Fair by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Milton’s Myth #8: Markets Are Efficient by Robin Eric Hahnel
- Understanding Macro III: The Rule of Corporations by Asad Zaman
- Milton Friedman, Banker’s Pet by Gwydion M. Williams
- The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman by LaRouche & Goldman
- Milton Friedman’s Hong Kong Misconceptions by AsiaSentinel
- Milton Friedman: a study in failure by Richard Adams
- The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll by Orlando Letelier
- Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom by Rob Larson
- Capitalism vs. freedom by libcom.org