Ethical systems are embedded in paradigms. The call for an ethical approach to economics must ultimately address the nature and critique of the existing paradigm, rather than focus simply on individual behavior or policy prescriptions. The existing paradigm has its own ethical norms and...

My meeting and subsequent long association with my mentor and friend, Milton Friedman, some of his contributions to economics, public policy, and the Chicago School, are described. The meeting with Friedman was due to a late night passenger in my Checker cab, Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr, a...

If we acknowledge that Adam Smith's two major works are related, we will be better equipped to appreciate the features of the economy we live in. The shift from a close-knit community to a more extensive range of economic relations, however, involves qualitative changes that question Vernon...