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Jim Craven's baseless and vulgar charge against Milton Friedman brings to
mind that Friedman's advocacy of freedom, noninflationary monetary policy,
and limited government has indeed been associated with efforts to censor.
But Friedman was never the censor; he was the one censored.
Before Chile, in 1974, members of the Students for a Democratic Society
tried to shout Friedman down as he gave a talk at the Oriental Institute in
Chicago. After Anthony Lewis's _New York Times_ article (October 2, 1975)
accusing him of contributing to repression of Chile's poor, a "Committee
Against Friedman/Harberger Collaboration With the Chilean Junta" was formed
at Chicago. The group's posters on the University of Chicago campus called
for members of the community to "drive Friedman off campus through protest
and exposure."
After the announcement of Friedman's Nobel Prize there were protests, and
the Friedmans were given special protection during their stay in Stockholm
for the ceremonies. Other efforts by demonstrators to silence him followed
after the Friedmans returned to the U.S.
If censorship is measured by the effort made to silence a person, which
economists have been subject to more censorship than Milton Friedman?
Dan Hammond
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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