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My first teaching job was at Virginia Tech and at the time no one knew that the soft spoken southern gentleman, Buchanan, was a such a racist and a fascist. Friedman came to visit his son David and to hold court at the Public Choice Center. He told the graduating class that all the public universities like theirs should be shutdown so they could just have competition between the elite private schools. So much for George Mason. A final tribute to Milton should be the skinheads at a Trump rally sporting t-shirts that said "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong". I also met von Hayek once, he was brilliant methodological innovator, but his ideology sucked. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/who-built-the-expressway-to-serfdom-are-economists-acutely-culpable-5b9b53063374

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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