chicago friedman memorial service audio

today i attended milton friedman's memorial service at rockerfeller chapel on the university of chicago campus. here are my audio files from the event, in the order given. sorry for the low quality, i just used my ipod.

• introduction by robert zimmer, president of university of chicago, with a statement from alan greenspan


• vaclav klaus, president of czech republic


• leo melamed, former chairman of the chicago mercantile exchange and founding chairman of the international monetary market


• arnold harberger, economics scholar and former student


• michael walker, former director of the fraser institute and former student


• gary becker, economics scholar, nobel prize winner, and former student

it was heartening to hear the warm things such friends & colleagues had to say about friedman. he must have truly been an exceptional man in all respects. equally moving was the tribute of president vaclav klaus, who lived through communism and its fall. although not close to friedman, his tale was incredibly moving and demonstrated how important ideas can be in transforming the lives of everyday people.

"it doesn't matter who said what. what matters is what's right"
-- friedman quoted by a. harberger

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