Milton Friedman

[(Controcorrente (POL)]

Cos'era Pinochet? liberale? un dittatore liberale?? Il massimo del paradosso!! Indovina il nome del primo ministro dell'economia di Mussolini.

Il mondo è pieno di liberisti non liberali.

[-Duca-]

Cos'era Pinochet? liberale? un dittatore liberale?? Il massimo del paradosso!! Indovina il nome del primo ministro dell'economia di Mussolini.

l'hanno silurato in poco tempo...

[Tambourine]

Il mondo è pieno di liberisti non liberali.

Si, credo che il problema in fondo sia proprio questo.

[(Controcorrente (POL)]

Si, credo che il problema in fondo sia proprio questo.

Non mi sembra il caso di Friedman...

[Tambourine]

Non mi sembra il caso di Friedman...

Se non avesse fatto da consulente ad un dittatore sarei d'accordo con te.

[-Duca-]

cmq non mi risulta che friedman personalmente abbia fatto da consulente a pinochet, mi ricordo che alcuni cileni sono stati a studiare all'università di chicago e poi sono tornati in patria, i c.d. chicago boys.

[Winnie]

Milton Friedman and Chilean economic policy

Milton Friedman advocated releasing price controls and replacing undeveloped countries' command-based economies with laissez-faire free market capitalism, even if it meant using quick reforms that Jeffrey Sachs would refer to as "shock therapy." In the case of Chile, these reforms where instituted in the wake of a violent coup, and Friedman's name has been strongly linked to the coup in Chile by critics such as exiled Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Orlando Letelier[29].
Friedman did not personally support Pinochet, though he had given some lectures advocating free market economic policies in La Universidad Católica de Chile and met with Pinochet for 45 minutes, where the general "indicated very little indeed about his own or the government's feeling" and the president asked Friedman to write him a letter laying out what he thought Chile’s economic policies should be; Friedman did that [30]. The New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis declared in 1975 that "the Chilean junta’s economic policy is based on the ideas of Milton Friedman…and his Chicago School". [30]
Commenting on his statement about the "Miracle", Friedman says that "the emphasis of that talk was that free markets would undermine political centralization and political control." [2] Friedman claimed that "The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well, because that's what Adam Smith said they would do. Chile is by all odds the best economic success story in Latin America today. The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it." [3] He says the "Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society. So the really important thing about the Chilean business is that free markets did work their way in bringing about a free society." [4] The term Miracle of Chile is also commonly used to refer to the claimed favorable economic results of economic liberalization in that economy. Detractors claim that the Chilean economy went into serious decline between 1973 and 1983. Supporters point out that this economic downturn was not confined to Chile but was a Latin American phenomenon; Chile being the first nation in the region to recover.
Some people have criticized Friedman for assisting the Pinochet government with economic reforms, pointing to the brutal tactics used by that regime. Friedman has defended himself against such criticisms, stating that he had given nearly similar speeches and promoted the same policies in China and Yugoslavia, and pointing out that his visit was unrelated to the political side of the regime and that during his visit to Chile he even stated that following his economic liberalization advice would help bring political freedom and the downfall of the regime.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle...conomic_policy

[(Controcorrente (POL)]

Se non avesse fatto da consulente ad un dittatore sarei d'accordo con te.

Oltre a quello che ha postato Winnie, aggiungo che basta leggere "Capitalismo e libertà", per accorgersi di come Friedman sostenesse il legame tra libertà economica e libertà politica.

[Tambourine]

La collaborazione tra l'uiversità di Chicago, di cui Friedman era il "messia", e il regime cileno è documentata e nota. Friedman ha partecipato indirettamente al regime di Pinochet. I liberali sono altri, quelli che sono morti con Pinochet.

[(Controcorrente (POL)]

La collaborazione tra l'uiversità di Chicago, di cui Friedman era il "messia", e il regime cileno è documentata e nota. Friedman ha partecipato indirettamente al regime di Pinochet. I liberali sono altri, quelli che sono morti con Pinochet.

Ha partecipato suggerendo riforme economiche, certamente non consigliando a Pinochet chi imprigionare.