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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Milton Friedman vs Ayn Rand: How to Change the World
Description: https://youtu.be/Bg9BFE1-49Y
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Milton Friedman’s impact as a public intellectual and how his advocacy of the free market differed from Ayn Rand’s radical philosophical case for capitalism.
Among the topics covered:
Why Milton Friedman is an essentially positive influence on free market thought;
How Friedman’s moral conventionality reinforced the ideas he tried to oppose;
The importance of stating the ideal when advocating for gradual reform;
Why questions of morality are at the root of economic issues;
How Friedman’s amoral...