Missing Uncle Milton

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise. The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

–Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, 1979

The Cold War is over. The University of Chicago won.

-George F. Will, 1989