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I recall being introduced to Friedman during the PBS series he did in the early 1980s. He was talking about how government should have no role in regulating the market and a women in the audience got up and asked whether a recent government ban on a particular type of baby crib on which the slats were too wide and were allowing babies bodies to slip through but then caught their heads and essentially hung them didn't belie his argument. Nonplussed Friedman responded not at all; once enough babies had died the company would go bankrupt and the product would be taken off the market. Made sense then; seems to make sense today!
