Baby Boot is two days late. And we discovered last week that apparently my wife and I don’t agree on a middle name for a girl (and still have a disagreement of the ordering of the names should it be a boy). Perhaps we can take inspiration from this list of the most popular celebrity-inspired names in Britain, […]
Update. From the BBC website,
Chancellor Gordon Brown described Mr Friedman as “one of the great economic theorists” of the 20th century. He had a major influence on post-war economic policy not least in establishing the importance of credibility in monetary policy making,”
I think Milton’s views on central bank credibilty extended to replacing bankers with a […]
Economics is boring to many I think, because it lacks the narrative drive of history, or the unifying approach of the hard sciences. Both views are of course incorrect but in Friedman there was an individual whose own work and life had both great narrative and a simple, consistent approach. Motivated almost solely with the aim of […]
