Audio: Milton Friedman on "Capitalism and the Jews"

If you're looking to something to do during that extra hour this weekend, you may want to check out an audio file that was just uploaded to the Law School's website: a talk by legendary University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman.

This recording was made on October 15, 1978 by James H. Fox, JD '78.

The speech was originally scheduled for the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, but was moved to the University of Chicago Law School Auditorium upon the announcement the week before of his Nobel Prize in Economics.

In the talk, Professor Friedman begins with two seemingly contradictory propositions (namely, "There are few peoples, if any in the world, who owe so great a debt to free enterprise and competitive capitalism as the Jews," and "There are few peoples, if any in the world, who have done so much to undermine the intellectual foundations of capitalism as the Jews") and then attempts to reconcile them.