University of Chicago professors protest school’s planned ‘Milton Friedman Institute’

[Pete C]

"According to [Yali] Amit, Friedman, the Nobel laureate and accomplished technical economist, 'cannot be disentangled from Milton Friedman, the right-wing ideologue.'"

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"Adding insult to injury, the Friedman Institute will occupy what is currently the Chicago Theological Seminary’s historic main building. In a letter to the University of Chicago Magazine, an alumnus suggested that the institute might be re-christened the 'Friedman Seminary for Divine Economics,' since the neo-Gothic landmark will be trading one theology for another."


http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3968/

[CRF Mark II]

It should be more appropriately named The Milton Bradley Institute.

[rollhead]

I suspect, though, that seminary students are a significantly more openminded than acolytes of Milton Friedman.

Personally, I think it should be the Augusto Pinochet Institute, as he was Friedman's most successful student ... or at the very least, have this portrait hanging in the foyer:

[CRF Mark II]

Originally Posted by rollhead

I suspect, though, that seminary students are a significantly more openminded than acolytes of Milton Friedman.

Personally, I think it should be the Augusto Pinochet Institute, as he was Friedman's most successful student ... or at the very least, have this portrait hanging in the foyer:

That's the look I strive for.