#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

1200.055 - 1225.956 Jennifer Burns

So she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as... kind of what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mytho-poetic psychological work as well. Whereas Friedman, on the one hand, was much more rational, and there's a whole set of economic thinking, and he provides a rational framework for understanding the world, and it's the framework of neoclassical economics.