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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Libertarians live in Virtual Reality
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141051.3822@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 19:10:51 GMT
- References: <8313@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1992Aug20.161848.6740@hemlock.cray.com>
- <1992Aug21.031513.27785@csi.uottawa.ca> <52628@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <52628@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug21.031513.27785@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >>(I HOPE that I have the attribution correct...)
- >>>yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >>>
- >>> >>> Milton Friedman, economically.
- >>>
- >>>The favorite economist of Gen. Pinochet and like minded great leaders the
- >>>world over.
- >>
- >>Of course, if the whole Chilean situation was actually orchestrated by
- >>the CIA (which is, of course, possible, and is in fact probable, but
- >>probably not completely verifyable), what Friedman did has little or
- >>no REAL relevance.
- >>
- >>That is, if the whole situation is the responsibility of the CIA, then
- >>Miltie is (axiomatically :-)) NOT responsible.
- >
- > You miss the point. I do not suggest that Milt was responsible for the
- > overthrow of the Allende government, I merely suggest that his claim to
- > be an advocate of "freedom" is incompatible with his eagerness to
- > cooperate with the Pinochet junta while it was still engaged in wholesale
- > torture and murder.
-
- I think it had more to do with Friedman's aversion to communism.
-
- > I further suggest that Friedman's economic polices
- > have been shown to be quite appealing to torture regimes, and are now
- > apparently quite the rage among the Nationalist right wing in Russia.
-
- "quite appealing to torture regimes"? Please.
-
- > The massive social engineering and economic redistribution of the
- > Pinochet regime seems to be quite impossible in a democratic society where
- > working people have a voice in the drafting of laws and the administration
- > of justice. Thus, advocates of Milt's economics should explain just how
- > far they are willing to go to give the rest of us the benefits of his,
- > brave new economy.
-
- Such social engineering schemes have usually come from the far left and
- far right. Friedman's economic policies have nothing to do with either. Much
- in the same way that a manufacturere of pistols or knives is responsible for
- crimes committed with them.
-
- Brett
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