Just got back from Chapman University, where I participated in, to the extent of delivering a few remarks, the dedication of the Milton and Rose Friedman Reading Room at the school’s Leatherby Library. I have other stuff to write and a train to catch, but it was a nice, and quite well-attended, event. Rose Friedman is still going at 97, and as gracious as I remember her. It was also good to see Milton’s son David (teaches at Santa Clara U.), who participated in a panel discussion, along with economists Vernon Smith (Nobel laureate) and UCLA’s Harold Demsetz and Arnold Harberger, on “What Would Milton Do?” about the current financial crisis. In short, not a definitive plan, but plenty of analysis of how we got into this mess. I’ll have more later.

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