Hayek, Friedman, Mises, and Rothbard on The Political Economy of Free Speech - LewRockwell

Hayek, Friedman, Mises, and Rothbard on The Political Economy of Free Speech - LewRockwell: To most people the issue of freedom of speech is a constitutional issue and a civil liberties matter.  But a number of free-market economists have written about it while insisting that one cannot separate political and economic freedom when it comes to freedom of speech.  Among them are F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard. Friedman In a 1979 article entitled “The Economics of Free Speech”[1] Milton Friedman declared that “there is a clear and direct relationship between economic arrangements, on the one hand, and free speech on the other.”[2]  In a very Austrian-sounding argument, Friedman begins … Continue reading →