U of Chicago has been the center of neoclassical economics for decades, but people only notice it's conservative after a silly letter?
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Replying to @AuerbachKeller
I'm bored with the culture wars but this is emblematic of the sheer historical ignorance and narcissistic myopia brought to these debates.
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Thomas Piketty took apart the Chicago school in his big book, as I described here.http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/04/thomas_piketty_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century_surprisingly_entertaining.html …
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Apparently faulty theories of human nature leading to cruel survival-of-the-fittest economic policies are nothing next to "No safe spaces!"
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Just as Peter Thiel's long history of dubious behavior only caught people's attention after he went after a well-connected rich white dude.
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The progressive mindset today: coddle college students (as long as they pay tuition), screw everyone else. A real liberal would be outraged.
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I personally think that the University of Chicago went south after Hutchins and Adler took over in the 30s. They were great til then.
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Hutchins and Adler put forth a backwards neo-Aristotelian Catholic program. Martin Gardner talks about it here: http://www.ams.org/notices/200506/fea-gardner.pdf …
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I wrote an essay trashing Jew-turned-Catholic Adler in 11th grade. I still have it, it was pretty funny. Even then I disliked pomposity.
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But apparently the harm of Milton Friedman is all to be forgotten next to the horrors of banning safe spaces and trigger warnings.
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what exactly was the harm of Friedman, especially within the prevailing zeitgeist?
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