October 31, 2008

At U. of Chicago, Dispute Over Friedman Center Continues to Simmer

By DAVID GLENN

Five months after the University of Chicago announced plans to invest $200-million in an economics institute named for the late Milton Friedman, the project is still generating rancor on the campus. The institute's designers say that the university needs a deep-pocketed research center to maintain its eminence in economics. But critics warn that the institute risks becoming a mouthpiece for Mr. Friedman's free-market policy views. That role, they say, would violate the spirit of the "Kalven

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