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Thanks a Lot, Milton Friedman

By Ernest Dumas
Arkansas Times | October 3, 2008
The worst thing that can happen to an economist is for the politicians to come over to his side and actually implement his grand idea. This week, the men who did the task for Friedman in the United States, or at least some of them, had to sift through the rubble in a very public and self-conscious way and explain why it all turned out so badly.
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