Zeon wrote:
> On Feb 11, 12:27 am, Vide...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> A Will for Change
>> by Tom Green
>> [This article was published in: Adbusters #75, Jan-Feb 2008]
>>
>> Every few years, the economic textbooks are updated. A few more years
>> of data are added to graphs celebrating economic growth. Stories of
>> "economics in the news" are revamped to make them relevant to new
>> recruits. Theoretical dead ends, paraded five editions ago as the
>> leading edge of the discipline, are quietly dropped. A new cover is
>> slapped on, and students are required to fork out even more money for
>> the new edition, despite the contents being 95 percent recycled.
> <snip>>
>> _Tom Green is a Vancouver-based ecological economist who is currently
>> working on his Ph.D. He is researching how the undergraduate economics
>> curriculum can be reformed and textbooks rewritten to address
>> sustainability.
>
> Friedman was amoral and evil. Read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine."
While I don't agree with many of Friedman's positions, he was not evil.
Naomi Klein did not know the man or probably even understand his
ideas. Here is someone who did:
http://deirdremccloskey.org/editorials/milton.php
"I would hope to persuade people who are not fans already that Milton
has been a force for good in the world. But of course it's a vain hope.
You, dear reader, have already taken up a position, which is another
measure of Milton's im****tance. If you are a Republican, say, you look
with indulgence on him, and forgive him his views on recreational drugs
and other consenting acts between adults. If you are a Democrat you look
on him with distaste, but admit that he co-discovered (with the Democrat
James Tobin) the by now wholly acceptable idea of helping the poor by
giving them . . . well. . . money. . . "
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