August 09, 2008

Faith-based economics buys its temple

If economics has strayed from a scientific to a faith-based endeavor, the late Milton Freidman is surely one of its high priests.

This spring his old academic home, the University of Chicago, announced plans for a $200 million economics institute to be named after him.

Guess where the institute is to be housed?

Would you believe ….

…. the Milton Friedman Institute is taking over the space currently occupied by the Chicago Theological Seminary?

I kid you not. Follow the link above.

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