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One on One: Market values
Originally published 29 Mar 2007 in The Jerusalem Post

	Daniel Doron, ICSEP President

ICSEP President Daniel Doron is interviewed by fellow Jerusalem Post contributor Ruthie Blum. One quip: “The wages of labor are a function of supply and demand, not of the size of the mustache of a union leader.”

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Rush of brilliance
Originally published 7 Feb 2007 in The Jerusalem Post

In seven years, the Herzliya Conference has expanded so widely that its focus is becoming blurred, its messages buried under an avalanche of sessions and speakers – not all useful.

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Milton Friedman and Israel
Originally published 13 Dec 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

Friedman was puzzled by the allure socialism held for so many Jewish intellectuals since it was capitalism that enabled Jews in Europe to survive the Dark Ages then since Enlightenment prosper.

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Remembering Milton Friedman
Originally published 30 Nov 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

	Dr. Milton Friedman, 1912-2006

Milton Friedman, who died November 19 at 94, had the rare ability to see the ocean even in a grain of sand.

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Seductive snake oil
Originally published 1 Mar 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

‘The challenge facing Israeli society is the acceleration of economic development and growth.” So begins, with great promise, Labor’s economic manifesto. What immediately follows, however – the insistence that growth depends on ”…the equitable distribution (by government, of course) of the fruits of growth among the public at large” – indicates that Labor has merely adopted a rhetoric of growth because everyone approves of growth.

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