Milton Friedman, the leader of the Chicago school of economics, made a famous speech about a pencil in a 10-hour PBS broadcast series called "Free to Choose" in 1980. The Economics Nobel Prize winner ...

Free markets and libertarianism are making a comeback. Not in the political world, unfortunately: governments in Canada and ...

In “Abundance,” Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson downplay how the public sector’s monopoly over key parts of modern life stifles ...

An ardent supporter of free trade, Musk shared a video on X of economist Milton Friedman holding up a pencil to marvel that its parts came from all over the world. That dissonance has trickled ...

“I, Pencil” has since become one of the most widely used tools for teaching the benefits of free trade and market coordination. It gained additional popularity thanks to Milton ...

They represent views opposite from true conservative economists such as the gold standard: Milton Friedman (economics ... s classic essay from 1958, “I, Pencil.” It describes the countless ...

They represent views opposite from true conservative economists such as the gold standard: Milton Friedman (economics ... s classic essay from 1958, “I, Pencil.” It describes the countless ...

They represent views opposite from true conservative economists such as the gold standard: Milton Friedman (economics ... s classic essay from 1958, “I, Pencil.” It describes the countless ...

"I, Pencil" has since become one of the most widely used tools for teaching the benefits of free trade and market coordination. It gained additional popularity thanks to Milton Friedman ...

Trump's tariffs remind me of the pencil example Milton Friedman used as a metaphor to illustrate the power of the free market and the spontaneous cooperation it enables. No single person knows how ...

I was unfamiliar with the legend of Milton Friedman’s pencil until I stumbled upon it online this week. In video footage from 1980 posted on X, the late US economist delivers a succinct ...

as indicated by his reposting an old but persuasive clip of Milton Friedman using a pencil to extol the advantages of global free trade. What we are witnessing is the kind of schism that could ...