[news] Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire

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Today, (former Chilean dictator Augusto) Pinochet is under house arrest for his brand of "shock therapy," and (Milton) Friedman is dead. But the world they helped usher in survives, in increasingly grotesque form. What was considered extreme in Chile in 1975 has now become the norm in the US today: a society where the market defines the totality of human fulfillment, and a government that tortures in the name of freedom.

  


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