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...— Nudged onto the rollercoaster (CEPR) — The real threat to classical music (Compact) — Milton Friedman, the prizefighter (The New Yorker) — What if we’ve been lied to about UFOs?...
...In 2003, its ruler, Prince Hans-Adam II, redrew its constitution simultaneously to grant the monarchy absolute executive power and to guarantee the population’s right to abolish it....
...Milton Friedman draws especial ire....
...The pod was christened XLII, or 42 in Roman numerals, a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the number is said to be the answer to the meaning of life....
...Milton Friedman’s favourite free market has been shackled by the deadweight of autocracy. Second, the China factor....
...Or maybe Milton Friedman, champion of monetarism....
...Reevemark, the communications firm, has added Adam Shapiro as partner and head of digital. He joins from FGS Global....
...Recent purchases are by Gabriel Orozco, Wang Xingwei, Milton Avery, Paul Anthony Harford and Richard Wright, and Li says she also bought a work by Paula Rego....
...But I don’t think you’re gonna see a return to Milton Friedman for three reasons....
...But there’s a trap in this, something which in a different context the writer Adam Gopnik has termed the “causal catastrophe”....
...“Milton Friedman said that chocolate companies should make chocolate and make money for their shareholders . . . Companies should stick to their core remit.”...
...(Think Adam Neumann, Markus Braun, Trevor Milton, Lex Greensill, Bill Hwang, Do Kwon, and now Bankman-Fried.)...
...Adam Smith may be the patron saint of libertarian economists but he was a great enthusiast for the Navigation Acts, which attempted to enforce an English shipping monopoly....
...If you had to name the two most influential economists of the postwar decades, you would not go far wrong if you picked Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman....
...The fine print Andreessen Horowitz’s $350mn investment in Adam Neumann’s new rental-apartment start-up came with an unusual catch, The Wall Street Journal revealed: he handed the venture capital group a...
...I note that Adam Tooze in his review of Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market has opted to deride Milton Friedman for his associations with Friedrich Hayek and with the alleged “politicking...
...“My mother taught me to read . . . at a very young age so that I would leave her alone to continue her own reading,” she says, citing the King James Bible, John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Concise Oxford...
...This is a rejection of Milton Friedman’s argument that businesses should prioritise profits for shareholders above all else....
...The album eases into action with “Bahia”, written by keyboardist Patscha as a tribute to the Brazilian singer and multi-instrumentalist Milton Nascimento....
...Just look at WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, who was forced out as chief executive when the co-working community’s initial public offering flopped....
...Milton Friedman might spin in his grave....
...Economist Adam Smith — who saw the economy as a moral system, not just a means for generating incomes — is a central figure in this book....
...The sudden switch to online advice has effectively forced people to become computer literate quickly, reports north Devon-based chartered financial planner Felix Milton....
...GT: So it’s about trying to talk about free trade with both parts of Adam Smith. GH: Yes, exactly....
...Bible stories have been making the leap from page to stage and screen for hundreds of years, from the medieval Mystery plays, when ordinary townspeople would take on the roles of Adam and Eve, through the...
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