The proposed Milton Friedman Institute made the news, thanks to a faculty protest letter. The letter is an interesting insight into academia, even here, with its talk of the “neoliberal global order,” “service of globalized capital,” “substitution of monetization for democratization.” I wrote a set of critical comments that got some press and amused my friends.

The protesters created a website (2014: alas apparently defunct, too bad, it was fun), and there is now a new website FriedmanFacts.com debunking them (2014: now hijacked to some nefarious marketing company). Gary Becker wrote an insightful blog post. In October 11 2008 I wrote a response to a new petition (2014: alas, now also seems to have vanished from the internet) against MFI.

All this is ancient history. The Institute, now named the Becker-Friedman institute, is up and running supporting all sorts of interesting research.

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