In light of the discussion surrounding, Friedman/Hayek and Pinochet, I hope the list-manager will permit this shameless self-advertisement.

I have posted a draft of a paper "Friedman, Positive Economics, and the Chicago Boys" (forthcoming in Ross Emmett's Elgar Companion to Chicago Economics) on the Social Science Research Network:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1142741

The paper argues (among other things) that even 'libertarian' economic theorists are vulnerable to association with dictatorial regimes in part because of the self-conception of economists as analogous to doctors (and connected to it a misguided/misleading notion of value-free science).

Eric Schliesser