Reason TV has put up a short interview with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, in which he stresses the imperative for businesses to make a moral defense of capitalism, and to embrace a purpose higher than the maximization of shareholder wealth.
“We’re trying to change [the] narrative and get people to realize the type of [...]
Milton Friedman’s Classical Liberalism
Inspired by Pete Boettke’s semi-recent post, I’ve just finished re-reading Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. It is a great work articulating and defending liberalism “in its original sense.”
It is also a work that illustrates [...]
Capitalism and Freedom was published in 1962 without much fanfare, though it has since stood the test of time. But Free to Choose was an international sensation when it was published in 1980. Among economists of a certain generation, they find Capitalism and Freedom the more tightly reasoned book, and [...]
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