Posted by
Michael on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:34:40 PM
In a previous post, I cited liberal blogger David Goldstein's
disrespectful degredation of Milton Friedman, who recently passed. Here's what he said:
Famed economist Milton Friedman died this week, and in pondering how
best to eulogize the Andy Warhol of post World War II economics, I was
reminded of another recent death — that of the comment spam that
plagued HA on and off for most of the past two years. For if Friedman
is a father figure to free market advocates everywhere, then spammers,
comment or otherwise, are surely his rightful heirs — the logical
online manifestation of a selfish and mean-spirited ideology that looks
to Friedman for its economic scholarship and Ayn Rand for its moral
philosophy (such as it might be.)I checked
his blog again, and Goldstein is acting as if he's surprised to be accused of being disrespectful to Freidman:
Apparently, quite a few people thought my piece on comment spam
was disrespectful to Milton Friedman… which kind of surprised me
because I didn’t really think the post was about Milton Friedman.
Um, yeah. That makes sense, seeing as the title of the post was "On Milton Friedman, comment spam, and the amorality of the market."
As I did in the post that preceded this one, I'll point you to a better representation of who Milton Friedman was. TRV
collected several different articles about Friedman in a post creditting the brilliant economist.