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Two unrelated comments:
1) Has nobody commenting on this thread mentioned Mary O. Furner's
excellent book, Advocacy and Objectivity (1975)? She discusses a series
of academic freedom cases involving economists in the 1890s and the
Progressive Era in the U.S. Her thesis, oversimplified, is that academic
economists responded to attacks from business and elsewhere by retreating
from engagement with social reform and claiming the mantle of
professionalism and value-free scientific objectivity.
[NOTE: Paul Wendt mentioned Furner's book in passing when talking about
the Edwin Ross case --
http://www.eh.net/ehnet/Archives/hes/nov-97/0021.html, but it bears
mentioning in a broader context as well.]
2) Jim Craven's comments on Friedman and the Chilean junta may be harsh,
but they're valid and important. There's something wrong with a response
to them that is more disturbed about Friedman's being shouted down at a
talk than about his involvement with the Pinochet regime. I don't support
shouting down speakers, but I haven't noticed that Friedman has had any
difficulty in making his views known to large audiences over the last few
decades.
Daniel Pope
History Department
University of Oregon
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