[iforgetti]

I recommend reading some of the original economic theory that undermines the “Chicago School” free market thinking of Milton Friedman and others who it seems you are so fed up with.

One good place to start might be the work of Friedrich Hayek.

If you are like me, you might start to have a more nuanced view than “It’s not true!!”.

Hayek for example despite being in many ways the father of this work was very explicit about the role of government and the many areas he considered government intervention essential.

[readonthegoapp]

austrian school guy? like von mises? one of the early neoliberals?

i went thru a bunch of that 20 years ago after stumbling on antiwar.com.

i think hayek and i prob have diff views on how to use state power.

https://chomsky.info/20210916/

  Friedrich Hayek, the moral leader of neoliberalism, visited and said he was impressed by the freedom under Augusto Pinochet and said he couldn’t find a single person in Chile who didn’t think there was more freedom under the Pinochet dictatorship than under Allende. Somehow he couldn’t hear the cries of anguish from Via Grimaldi and other torture chambers.

that guy?

[iforgetti]

Yep that guy, except I suggest reading his actual work instead of basing your thinking on what someone else thought he thought.