Milton Friedman
economist · 5 mentions across 2 readings
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Milton Friedman emerges as a foundational intellectual ancestor of cyberlibertarian thought, which treats government itself as inherently totalitarian and positions free-market mechanisms as the alternative to state control. The readings invoke Friedman's legacy to trace how right-wing economic discourse—rooted in his productivity-based justifications for market outcomes—has become a powerful ideological tool that ultimately concentrates capital and power rather than dispersing it, particularly evident in how cryptocurrency advocates adopt these arguments to bypass institutional oversight.
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