it's a little hard to trust statements that begin with "i don't usually do this sort of thing...", but really, i don't usually do this sort of thing. that is, comment on current events. mostly that's because the news is so inane: not really news but the same old thing being done again by different people. and though the man pictured at right is getting his fair share of glowing tributes in the papers right now, Milton Friedman should have received many more of those in life than he has done since his death a week ago. a rather good article in the rather good magazine Reason will elucidate the finer points of why that is so, while i will say that of all the economists i have read, Friedman's ideas are consistently the most persuasive. his is the most lamentable public death since that of the great Hugh Nibley early last year, whose excellent book Approaching Zion was, incidentally, the first thing that prompted me to a formal study of economics. to my two favorite scholars: thanks, and a fond farewell.
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