Was there any connection between Friedman and Leo Strauss? I have some vague recollection that it was mentioned here. Perhaps by Chuck Grimes?
I remember my first introduction to Friedman's thought. i hadn't been able to go to college right away, so I saved up money and took a course part time a couple of years after high school. I took an economics course b/c I'd loved my economics course in HS --which had been team taught by two women, one liberal/one conservative. Very cool class coz they'd hold debates. It was a hick school, but a good hick school.
Praise the dead guy on a stick, the college instructor assigned some book which included three perspectives: neo-classical, keynesian, and the 'radical' view. phew. I had been given economics training in H.S. as a fundamentally political endeavor -- that's how the two women who taught the class saw it, strangely enough given that econ tends to be taught in a very depoliticized way.
At 12:17 PM 11/17/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:
>"Michael J. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:21, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> >
> > > The U of C in my day felt like a monastery and not a prison....
> > > If you stayed away from the B-school and the Law School as an
> > > undergrad you were pretty safe from the coarse ideologies and then
> you only
> > > had to deal with the Maoists or the Sparts in the quad, for your quota of
> > > ideology.
> >
> > You forgot the Aristotelians in the English department. A wilder-eyed
> > gang of fanatics you never saw.
>
>I would agree with this on the first generation anyhow. But I rather
>grew to like Booth and one or two others of the 2d generation.
>
>Re Uncle Miltie. A poster on marxism who works in a TV station wrote as
>follows --
>
>****MSNBC story said: "Friedman died of heart failure ..."
>
>Heard in the newsroom today, when the story broke just before 1:00 PM:
>"¿Quién se habría imaginado que ese hombre tenía corazón?" (Who could
>have suspected that man had a heart?)****
>
>Carrol
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