A Course on Milton Friedman?

[rneedham at uwaterloo.ca]

How about someone offering a course on MIlton Friedman?

I send this to everyone since the suggestion for a course of the sort
I have in mind is not likely to sit well in Economics.

The title I suggest is

"Milton Friedman and Capitalism, Corporatism and Fascism: WHAT ABOUT
DEMOCRACY?"

The course should be based on the following. But there is far more available.

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,
(Knopf Canada, 2007).

Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire, (New
York: Norton: 2006).

Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture, (New York: W. W.
Norton & Company.  2001)

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror
Turned into a War on American Values, (Doubleday, 2008).

Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,
(Vanguard Press, May 27 2008)

Charles A. Reich, Opposing the System, (New York: Crown Publishers,
Inc., 1995).

Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War,
Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire,
(Spiegel & Grau, 2008)

BY the way the "anti-Friedman Institute" Committee at the University
of Chicago plans to tslk to Naomi Klein on October 1, 2006.



W.-Robert Needham
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
University of Waterloo
Home Tel: 519-578-4143
http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/fac-needham.html

It was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who wrote the  
entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more  
appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state  
and corporate power." Mussolini, however, affixed his name to the  
entry, and claimed credit for it.]
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/090306HARTMANN.shtml

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an
episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...
~Simone Weil