You have to be impressed with a same-day obituary entitled "Milton Friedman: A Study in Failure." The piece is in no way churlish, but rather a recounting of Friedman's actual impact on public policy, and how often it worked against his small government, free market ideology. It concludes that Friedman, paradoxically, was Big Government's best friend. Well worth a read to better understand the man's public service which, in my view, had some useful outcomes.
Also worth mentioning, by the way, is that Friedman's negative income tax was, and remains, if correctly implemented, a powerfully useful policy tool.
