[lbo-talk] re: neocon econommists

Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Mon Apr 21 22:33:19 PDT 2003


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



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