Why Should I Disagree With Milton Friedman?

[Tck13]

I have a current mancrush on Milton Friedman and have been reading / watching a lot about him.

ITT, we point out why his philosophies don't / won't work so that I can get over my crush and move on.

Thank you.

 

[Thomas]

**** too small. I can't crush on anything smaller than a C cup.

 

[imageWIS]



**** too small. I can't crush on anything smaller than a C cup.

Well played.

 

[Tck13]



**** too small. I can't crush on anything smaller than a C cup.

/thread.

 

[mordecai]

I think his confidence in macroeconomic efficiency is a little exaggerated, but I love hearing him speak. He was brilliant. I prefer Hayek but I am not extremely well read in either.

He is responsible for Naomi Klein's career however, so (to borrow her logic for a moment) that makes him a despicable figure.

 

[StephenHero]



I have a current mancrush on Milton Friedman and have been reading / watching a lot about him.
ITT, we point out why his philosophies don't / won't work so that I can get over my crush and move on.

Friedman sucks because in the last 125 years, humans in the free market have developed electricity, indoor plumbing, computers, cars, airplanes, medicine, the internet, cell phones, video games, film, modern arts, fake ****, Oreos, and the Foreman Grill, but because some people in America still can't afford to rent a loft in Tribeca, capitalism has been a colossal failure and we must abandon it.

 

[Tck13]



I think his confidence in macroeconomic efficiency is a little exaggerated, but I love hearing him speak. He was brilliant. I prefer Hayek but I am not extremely well read in either.
He is responsible for Naomi Klein's career however, so (to borrow her logic for a moment) that makes him a despicable figure.

I just recently saw some of this woman's insane stuff. She seems like a real

 

[mordecai]



I just recently saw some of this woman's insane stuff. She seems like a real

She and her husband have a running competition over who can raise my blood pressure higher.

 

[curzon]



I have a current mancrush on Milton Friedman and have been reading / watching a lot about him.
ITT, we point out why his philosophies don't / won't work so that I can get over my crush and move on.
Thank you.

Dig into Ludwig von Mises, too.

 

[Tck13]



Dig into Ludwig von Mises, too.

I've been a member of the LVM institute (or whatever) on Facebook and frequent their website in addition to the Cato institutes website (and have had "The Road to Serfdom" on my reading list forever) but for some reason, all of a sudden, much of it's really just starting to sink in. Not sure why. I was never much of an economic kind of person.

I blame George Bush. (Really, I do)...

 

[lasbar]

Economics cannot be purely explained , understood and managed through Neoclassical synthesis or on Keynesianist policies because of so many human , political, sociological and irrational stimuli affecting their models...

If great economists were able to manage our economies ,why are regularly in the shite ???

Neoclassical policies were behind the great depression and Keynes brought the answers...

Keynes policies run into the muds of the seventies and suddenly we have the monetarist mirages...

And now???

Neo Keynesiasim , Post School of Chicago??

I have always hated people thinking through intellectualized patterns and dogma ...

They're very dangerous and lacking the pragmatism needed to adapt to new challenges needing answers outside the frames they believed in..

Greenspan anyone??

The great econimal minds of this century..

 

[scarphe]



Friedman sucks because in the last 125 years, humans in the free market have developed electricity, indoor plumbing, computers, cars, airplanes, medicine, the internet, cell phones, video games, film, modern arts, fake ****, Oreos, and the Foreman Grill, but because some people in America still can't afford to rent a loft in Tribeca, capitalism has been a colossal failure and we must abandon it.

you have weird concept of a free market if if you think many of those were developed in one... that means you consider the the system of west duringht 70´s to 90´s a free market system. that idea can be shot down in 5 minutes

 

[I am DIL]

Because that motherfucker looks like a Ghandi-Turtle-Ashkenazi-Hebrew hybrid.

 

[lasbar]



Because that motherfucker looks like a Ghandi-Turtle-Ashkenazi-Hebrew hybrid. 

You're right , that's the Jews fault again..

 

[mordecai]



you have weird concept of a free market if if you think many of those were developed in one... that means you consider the the system of west duringht 70´s to 90´s a free market system. that idea can be shot down in 5 minutes

This is sort of like the "Communism has never been given a real try" argument. Also, Lasbar is incomprehensible.