[lbo-talk] Friedman, Free Market and Freedom

[Robert Wrubel]

What were these "common rooms"?  As I recall there
were dining halls, quadrangles, and a town commons
next to the freshman campus, on which statues of
people like Nathan Hale stood. In History of Art IA
You had to write an essay about the visual experience
of walking across it.

Bob
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> 
> > Friedman's book, Capitalism and Freedom...
> 
> Is the book what done it to me - made me a
> right-winger back in 1971,  
> along with Buckley's Up From Liberalism. I haven't
> looked at it in  
> years, but as I remember, it's very seductive. The
> logical sleights  
> of hand that Macpherson cites are very effective,
> very appealing to  
> an adolescent mind longing for liberty. (We loved
> that word,  
> "liberty," on the right, even more than "freedom.")
> There's a  
> romantic heroism to it. Yes, maybe the free market
> left some people  
> poor, but that was simply the price of freedom,
> since political  
> freedom is inseparable from economic freedom. It was
> always someone  
> else's poverty that made it possible, though.
> "Freedom is  
> indivisible," we liked to say in the Yale common
> rooms.
> 
> Doug
> 
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