TGIFriedman- Big Government Part II

TGIFriedman- Big Government Part I

TGIFriedman- How to Cure Inflation Part III

Here's the final installment of Milton Friedman's three-part cure for inflation.

TGIFriedman- How to Cure Inflation Part II

Here's the second of three installments on how to cure inflation from Milton Friedman.

TGIFriedman- How to Cure Inflation

Today, our favorite avuncular economist tells us how to cure inflation. Or at least starts to tell us. We'll post the rest of his solution over the next two weeks.

Power of the Market- Opportunity

Milton Friedman discusses the power of opportunity.

TGIFriedman- Medicine

Let's see if Milton Friedman's take on medicine from his landmark "Free to Choose" series has any lessons for us today.

TGIFriedman- Government's Health Care Role

A third installment from Milton Friedman's health care speech at the Mayo Clinic in 1978.

TGIFriedman- Rising Cost of Health Care

More from Friedman's address at the Mayo Clinic in 1978.

TGIFriedman- Curing American Health Care

Thanks to Charlie's favorite blog, Carpe Diem, for this week's installment. Milton Friedman argued to end the antiquated guild system used to license doctors in an address at the Mayo Clinic in 1978.

TGIFriedman- Minimum Wage

Milton Friedman looks at the consequences, untended to some, desired by others, of minimum wage laws.

Let's see what the latest minimum wage hike, along with a recession, did to teen unemployment.

TGIFriedman- Unfair Competition

TGIFriedman- Immigration

As with many of Milton Friedman's videos from the 70's and 80's, it's remarkable how we are still facing the same questions today.

TGIFriedman- Farewell to Rose Friedman

Rose Friedman was an outstanding economist in her own right, and happened to be married to Milton Friedman, who could communicate free market principles better through television than anyone in history. Given that, Milton tended to dominate the video appearances, though they were true partners in their work as well as life, and Rose Friedman was a true co-author of the landmark "Free to Choose".

I contacted the Friedman Foundation this week asking if they had video of Rose that we could use in our TGIFriedman segment. YouTube is filled with clips from the telegenic Milton, but not of the shy Rose. They agreed, and are starting to upload their archival footage.

First up is a discussion they had with Milton and Rose Friedman in 2004 on a subject close to our hearts at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, the importance of state-based think tanks.

Remembering Rose Friedman

The Friedman Foundation has sad news. Rose Friedman has died.

She will be remembered both as a talented economist and an influential advocate of freedom. Her economic work helped to discredit the idea of government management of the economy, rolling back policies that were hindering wealth creation and thus helping extend the blessings of prosperity to millions around the world. And as a standard-bearer for human liberty, she contributed to the galvanizing of public opinion – especially in the 1980s – against the growing encroachments of intrusive government.

She will also be remembered as both the professional partner and beloved wife and friend of her late husband of 68 years, Milton Friedman.

Brian Doherty writes about Rose Friedman's legacy at Reason.

Because she was collaborator on his major works of popular political and economic philosophy and advocacy, most importantly Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, she deserves her fair share of the glory and regard her husband Milton got. Consult my March 2007 article in Reason magazine for the ideas and accomplishments of the Friedmans in helping make America a place that is in some respects actually freer, and in most respects an intellectual environment where the idea of human liberty has wider play than it did before they did their long, arduous work of explaining the benefits of liberty, often against great opposition.

Because she was the less celebrated and less public partner of one of the giants of economics, and of 20th Century thinking as a whole, Rose Friedman may be overshadowed in history. She should not be overshadowed today. Rest in Peace.

TGIFriedman- Labor

Milton Friedman takes a look at labor unions.

TGIFriedman: Education

Happy Birthday, Mr. Friedman

Milton Friedman was born 97 years ago today.

Here's our complete archive of TGIFriedman.

Hattip: Dennis Delay

TGIFriedman: Consumer Protection

Milton Friedman takes on Ralph Nader:

TGIFriedman: Higher Education