Brimelow was at Fortune or Forbes at the time, right? And do you interpret Friedman as saying anything much different there about democracy that classic constitutional theorist have said through the ages about factions and the logic of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs?
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Replying to @PeterBoettke @zeithistoriker and
Forbes — he editor at time of interview— and his views on immigration (odious ones from my perspective) emerge in full view only in 90s and 2000s, right? So I don’t think there is a Brimelow ‘connection’ to Friedman, or at least granting an interview at Forbes doesn’t establish.
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Yes. I think explaining that move is very important for disentangling folks, and seeing the conservatives from liberals.
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Replying to @zeithistoriker @PeterBoettke and
It's important to disentangle but there is overlap -- it's worth looking at Brimelow's writings on this -- a couple of times he explicitly cited Friedman for idea that not everyone was capable of market culture.
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I am far from being a knee-jerk defender of Friedman, but one should not rule out a priori the possibility that in the instances you reference Brimelow was mischaracterizing Friedman
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More than possible but I think there was a traffic of ideas there which is worth researching.
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I completely agree with that point.
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