Playboy Interview: Milton Friedman

Playboy Interview: Milton FriedmanBertrand Russell studied economics briefly but quit because it was too easy. Max Planck, the physicist whose breakthroughs in quantum mechanics were as revolutionary as Einstein's in relativity, dropped economics because it was too hard. They were probably both right. That sort of paradox seems to agree with Milton Friedman--and to surround him. Friedman's own reputation, for example, as the most original economic thinker since John Maynard Keynes, is due in lar...