Tuesday, November 21, 2006

RIP, Milton Friedman

I never was much of a fan of the ultra-free-market thinkers, but I'll always remember Milton Friedman, the Nobel economist who died this month at 94, for enraging the so-called "free market advocates" in 2002, saying

There is no doubt that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy.

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