Difference between revisions of "What's wrong with Milton Friedman's economics?/McCarthyites"
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| text = It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the modern gurus of libertarian economics – Friedman, Mises, Hayek, and their followers – were and are all basically intellectual McCarthyites, motivated by a visceral hatred of communism and, by association, of all forms of socialism. Their virulent loathing has driven them to embrace with uncritical enthusiasm the opposite doctrine. But it was the vices of nineteenth-century laisser-faire that inspired communism and socialism in the first place! | | text = It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the modern gurus of libertarian economics – Friedman, Mises, Hayek, and their followers – were and are all basically intellectual McCarthyites, motivated by a visceral hatred of communism and, by association, of all forms of socialism. Their virulent loathing has driven them to embrace with uncritical enthusiasm the opposite doctrine. But it was the vices of nineteenth-century laisser-faire that inspired communism and socialism in the first place! | ||
| cite = [[Angus Sibley]], "{{Link |What’s wrong with Milton Friedman’s economics?}}" | | cite = [[Angus Sibley]], "{{Link |What’s wrong with Milton Friedman’s economics?}}" | ||
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