Who Do You Think Deserves a Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty?
The Cato Institute is looking for nominations for its next Milton Friedman Prize. Past winners of the award, given every two years, are Venezuelan activist Yon Goicoechea, who helped organize the opposition to Hugo Chavez’s attempts to create a totalitarian state; former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar, whose deep cuts in government helped Estonia achieve prosperity; Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, whose work demonstrated the importance of property rights for the poor; and economist Peter Bauer whose writings helped undermine the idea that third world countries need central planning in order to achieve economic growth.
