Tuesday, November 04, 2008
After half a year of figthing the Man
...the anti-MFI movement finally declares victory: the Milton Friedman Institute has become the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Take that, econ department.
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Oh good lord.
I really don't understand the hub-bub. The man won a Nobel prize. Even communists have to concede he made important contributions to human knowledge, right? Is the UofC faculty really this wacky? Naming a campus research institute after a Nobel laureate who taught for decades at the university seems like a no-brainer. Heck, you won't hear a peep out of me when MIT wants to name something after Noam Chomsky. Perhaps I'll pay for Naomi Klein to give the groundbreaking address.
Since when did Chomsky win a Nobel Prize? Even one of those crappy ones, like Economics or Peace?
"Since when did Chomsky win a Nobel Prize? Even one of those crappy ones, like Economics or Peace?"
He hasn't, but he has made some important contributions in linguistics.
"Is the UofC faculty really this wacky?"
I leave you to decide this.
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