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

9361.117 - 9385.902 Jennifer Burns

So if we step back, what they were doing was getting inside the mind of a great thinker and understanding the ways that all fit together and then kind of testing their ideas against Knight's. And what's fascinating is one of the first papers that Freeman publishes in Statistics is a rebuttal of Frank Knighton. He publishes a rebuttal of Frank Knight's ideas about risk and uncertainty.