Is Milton Friedman a Libertarian ?
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from such questions at present. For this debate, see pro open immigration: Block (1998, 2004), Block and Callahan (2003), Gregory and Block (2007) Huerta de Soto (1998); anti open immigration: Brimelow (1995), Taylor (1998), Hoppe (1998, 2001), Kinsella (2005). III. Categorizing Friedman. With this overview, which hopefully will enable us to identify the players without a scorecard, we can now attempt to categorize Milton Friedman. Is he an anarcho-capitalist? To ask this question is to answer it: he is not. It cannot possibly be overstated how important money is for a free society. Again, it is the very lifeblood of the economy. Apart from the miniscule number of trades financed through barter, money is one half of every transaction undertaken. Lenin knew well that the surest way to undermine a society is to debauch its currency. Can he be found amongst the minarchists? No, he defends a far more intrusive government. The horse race here is between loose libertarianism or minarchism plus, on the one hand, and classical liberalism, on the other. Certainly, Friedman’s opposition to rent control, minimum wage, tariffs, the drug war, etc., tend to drag him in the former direction. But there are several stands of which propel him the other way entirely.
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