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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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