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herk--you have got to be joking. while it's the case that friedman's most influential document is an article in the ny sunday times, it is nonetheless the case that the bulk of his non-specialist writing is an extended argument for the separation of profit generation from any and all ethical frameworks, the assumption that profit generation IS an ethics...the argument from specialization is weak, the separations at the base of his conceptions untenable. but the main thing is that friedman is at the source of neoliberalism, which is an IDEOLOGY within capitalism and not capitalism itself. to argue as you do is like actually believing some evangelical protestant group which claims that it and it alone IS christianity. it's stupid, self-serving nonsense.
guyy--the fate of the mfi is funny stuff. i wonder what uc will repaint it as. maybe a coffee house.
as to who won the tedious debate, i don't see much of a contest. i watched the cnn coverage for a little while so i could see the goofy little reaction ekg box twitch about, but it seemed mostly to flatline (then i got sick of it)...flatline is what i thought of the whole thing, but not in the way cnn would have one imagine the term.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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