[lbo-talk] re: neocon econommists

[Chuck Grimes]

Chuck, about Friedman's methodology, yes, he is unscrupulous.  One of his
conservative colleagues used to call him a crook.  His statistical work
has been raked over the coals.  The only question was whether he was a
neo-con.  I think that he is a con.

 -- 
Michael Perelman

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Hey, what can I say? It was completely fortuitous. I went looking for
something to make a connection between the implicit authoritarianism
of Strauss and US conservatives in general, and the high flown
obscuring rhetoric of academic economics. There it was in his Nobel
speech.

Anyway it was fun to discover. Con as in conservative or con as in
confidence man? I don't think there is much of a distinction, but for
the record?

Chuck Grimes