Marshall Sahlins Critica o Friedman Institute

O famoso antropólogo Marshall Sahlins critica o Milton Friedman institute da Universidade de Chicago. Sua crítica profundamente desonesta ilustra não somente sua ignorância em economia, mas seu ódio absolutamente irracional -e, todavia, típico dos antropólogos - ao capitalismo:

"Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who died in 2006 after a long career at the university, was known for his radical laissez-faire approach to society and the economy. Of course, to many observers at home and abroad, the establishment of a monumental institute named after Friedman and directly subsidized by private funds, will brand the University of Chicago as an academic instrument of a certain ideology. It will make the university party to an extremist version of liberal capitalism that has proven to serve the welfare of the ruling elite in a number of countries at the cost of whom it may concern — notably the society in general and the poor in particular.

Does the university expect us to "disappear" the memory of the Friedman-trained Chicago Boys, who supplied the economic programs for the draconian regimes of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and the generals in Argentina? The sacrificial reduction of social values to monetary calculations is the essence of Friedman economics, and helps explain its historic taint as the complement of state terror."