Lessons from the 70s in why oil prices can stay high « Peter J. Cooper’s W...

" The problem is that to stop a financial crisis turning into a second Great Depression the only answer is to pump more money into the system to keep it afloat. This happened in the mid-70s and inflation moved still higher while the banking system tottered but did not fall,...

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"Two good articles on the death of the daddy of neo-conservative economics; Milton Friedman. Relentlessly Progressive Economics and Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire"

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Milton Friedman once said, "The social responsibility of business is to make profits."According to Wikipedia, "Born in New York City to a working-class family of Jewish immigrants from Beregszász, Hungary (today Berehove, Ukraine), Friedman grew up in Rahway, New Jersey, and...

Reason: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A debate featuring ...

Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business A debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T.J. Rodgers Thirty-five years ago, Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up...

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