an utterly intolerant and dogmatic person who did a great deal of good"Milton Friedman on Ayn Rand.

[white_wolf]

A person who says Ayn Rand did a great deal of good should not be a person we take seriously. How Milton Friedman won a Noble Prize I will never know.

[tabatha]

1. deleted

for duh'mery

[white_wolf]

2. The quote was from Milton Friedman and he did.

In 1976 he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

[tabatha]

3. Thanks.

Yes, I once knew some people who worshipped Milton Friedman like a god.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. Read up on her young boyfriend Nathaniel Branden.

Who wrote a ton of books on self-esteem.

I guess Ayn didn't have any problems with HER self-esteem, or Mr. Greenspan, or Mr. Friedman...

They are the self-proclaimed elite. Who know what's best for all of us peons.

[enough]

4. Also, Alan Greenspan was a lifelong personal acolyte of Ayn Rand.

Literally sat at her feet.

[white_wolf]

5. Yeah, he was part of her original group of students. "The Collective."

Scary, the influence that woman has.

[Odin2005]

6. The Economics Prize is NOT a real Nobel Prize.

It was created by Swedish bankers and artificially tied to the REAL Nobel Prizes to give this Corporatist propaganda tool legitimacy.

[white_wolf]

7. Really? I didn't know that.

I just assumed it was the same as he prizes in peace,physics, and other areas. Was it created after the others?

[Odin2005]

9. Yes, in the early 60s, IIRC.

[white_wolf]

10. Damn, It makes sense to me though, because

honestly economics has always been a very hard science for me to get behind. A lot of theory, but so much of it has been proven false beyond a doubt, in any other branch of science Friedman's theories and Trickle Down would have been abandoned like the theory of a Geo-centric universe,

[Zanzoobar]

11. LOL! What is a REAL Nobel prize?

A committee handing out ribbons and money!

Any group of fools can do that.

[Odin2005]

13. The actual catagories set out by Nobel himself.

Economics was not one of those.

[Zanzoobar]

14. Again. LOL.

I'm giving out a Zanzoobar Prize!

You're the first winner!

[white_wolf]

15. So the man who establised the prizes

has no say over what should or shouldn't be in them? Don't you think he would have included economics if he thought it worthy?

[Zanzoobar]

16. Of course he should!

You're the 2nd winner of the Zanzoobar prize!

[Odin2005]

17. Go away, troll

[Zanzoobar]

18. I'm sorry.

You're not eligible to win twice.

[handmade34]

8. ...

Naomi Klein does a pretty good expose of Friedman in "Shock Doctrine"... also the documentary "The One Percent"

makes me angry that so many agree(d) with his theories

[tnlefty]

12. Barking up the wrong tree here as I break open a bottle of

champagne on the anniversary of Milton's death.