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In the wake of Chile’s 8.8 earthquake, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal about how “Milton Friedman gave Chileans the intellectual wherewithal first to survive the quake, and now to build their lives anew.”

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I just came across an excellent, even-handed article in reason discussing the pros and cons of Friedman’s interaction with Chile. An excerpt:

It may have been more morally satisfying to have no relationship with Pinochet, merely condemn him

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Although Swedish writer Johan Norberg has done an excellent job of discrediting the idea that Milton Friedman and his scholarship were responsible for Chilean violence, both in print and video, we can also see what Friedman… [Read the rest]