Thursday, July 20, 2006
Milton Update [John J. Miller]
Yesterday, I blegged for a Milton Friedman quote. And proving once again that readers of The Corner collectively know absolutely everything, here it is:
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
It comes from the preface to the 1982 edition of
Capitalism and Freedom. A blogger (who was not my source) mentions it briefly
here.
07/20 06:09 AM
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