Research Publications
The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century
Proceedings of a Conference
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
October 2003
Foreword
Preface
Remarks
Introduction
- "Free to Choose"
Mark A. Wynne
Session 1
- The Toughest Battleground:
Schools
Eric A. Hanushek - The Theory and Practice
of School Choice
Paul E. Peterson
Session 2
- The Property
Rights Path to Sustainable Development
Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins - Economic Freedom and
Environmental Quality
Richard L. Stroup
Session 3
- The Economic Burden
of Taxation
William A. Niskanen - The Transition
to Private Market Provision of Elderly Entitlements
Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving
Session 4
- Commerce, Culture and
Diversity: Some Friedmanesque Themes in Trade
and the Arts
Tyler Cowen - Milton and Rose Friedman’s
“Free to Choose” and Its Impact
in the Global Movement Toward Free Market Policy:
1979 –2003
Peter J. Boettke - Free to Choose in China
Gregory C. Chow
Session 5
- Financial Markets and
Economic Freedom
Luigi Zingales - Choosing Freely: The
Friedmans’ Influence on Economic and Social
Policy
Allan H. Meltzer - Friedman’s Monetary
Framework: Some Lessons
Ben S. Bernanke
Session 6
- What Have We Learned
from the Measurement of Economic Freedom
James Gwartney and Robert Lawson - Can the Tide Turn?
Raghuram G. Rajan - Acknowledgments
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