![]() ![]() 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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