Friday Interview: Free-Market Environmentalism

RALEIGH — The columnist George Will once called Milton Friedman “America's most consequential public intellectual of the 20th Century.” Friedman's work has had a major impact in most areas of public policy, including discussions about environmental quality. Earlier this year, Richard Stroup, visiting professor of economics at N.C. State University, discussed “Milton Friedman, Economic Freedom, and Environmental Quality” for the John Locke Foundation's Shaftesbury Society. He also highlighted Friedman’s influence during a discussion with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.