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FriedmanFacts.com has spent some time discussing Naomi Klein. Partly, this is because although Klein’s ideas are neither rigorous nor historically accurate, and are easily falsified, they certainly are persuasive to large amounts of people who don’t have the time or… [Read the rest]

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.”

It is a… [Read the rest]

Art Carden, Rhodes College Professor of Economics, just published an excellent article in the Journal of Lutheran Ethics on Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine. We’re not sure why it’s in JLE, but it really is an interesting review… [Read the rest]

In David Boaz’s new article this week in The Guardian, he argues that the reality of government behavior under crisis is miles from Klein’s claim.  The new administration is using the current economic “shock” to increase the size… [Read the rest]

A friend just tipped me off to another article by scholar Johan Norbgerg in which he trounces her many inaccuracies about Milton Friedman and the Chicago School.  In this highly readable article, he picks of her major claims and… [Read the rest]

Naomi Klein’s ability to shamelessly spin lies without scorn from the journalistic community is astounding. Despite excellent treatises on her fact-checking and logical ineptitude (here, here, here, here, and here, plus a bevy of YouTube… [Read the rest]

Naomi Klein, Friedman polemicist, has a newish interview in the New Yorker magazine in which she tries to equate the horrible results of communist/socialist ideology (i.e. that enforced under the rule of Stalin, Hitler and others) to the horrible results… [Read the rest]

Civil liberties journalist Radley Balko comments on whether Naomi Klein is justified in blaming Milton Friedman for the ills of the countries he visited:

[Klein says that] because Milton Friedman advised governments about free markets and individual freedom, and

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We’re not sure why Klein utilizes so many untruths in her new book.   Some of us think she herself is misinformed or mislead, while others of us feel there is something more sinister afoot.  Whatever the reason, shoddy scholarship should… [Read the rest]

We posted before about economic historian Johan Norberg’s October 2008 Reason Magazine article that discusses Naomi Klein’s misguided critique of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. (Read it in its entirety here).

But now you can download the… [Read the rest]