Mark Ames: When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)
Setting capitalism aside, the outrage with right-libertarian economic dogma on the "left" is well deserved and justified. What has been persistently missing and not appreciated by this, for the most part, partisan "left" is that, to a large extent, neoliberalism - the ideology of the "post ideological" duopoly - unlike right-libertarianism which rejects the agency of the state, has availed itself of all power vested in state institutions to reify an otherwise merely pernicious and mostly aspirational political-economic dementia while, simultaneously, catapulting the only redeeming right-libertarian anti-war and anti-imperialist conceit. IOW, neoliberalism represents the more effective and far greater evil of the two. ------------ "Last Friday, November 9, saw the big “Milton Friedman Centennial” celebration at the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. It was a big day for fans of one of the Founding ...