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

2835.78 - 2862.087 Jennifer Burns

Yes, yes, exactly right. So this is the situation in the 1920s, but... The other piece I should mention is the first generation of progressive economists were very radical. They were closely allied with the socialist movement, with labor radicalism, and many of them lost their jobs at universities. This kind of connects to the early, the dawn of academic freedom. This is before academic freedom.