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PATRICIA COHEN “On Chicago Campus, Milton Friedman's Legacy of Controversy Continues” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/books/12milt.html
2006年に死去した経済学者ミルトン・フリードマンの名を冠した、シカゴ大学のMilton Friedman Instituteの設立に対して、神学院のBruce Lincoln教授を初めとする100人以上の教授が反対を表明している。
Opponents have pointed to a passage in the proposal that states: “Following Friedman’s lead, the design and evaluation of economic policy requires analyses that respect the incentives of individuals and the essential role of markets in allocating goods and services. As Friedman and others continually demonstrated, design of public policy without regard to market alternatives has adverse social consequences.”
Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976, said he fervently believed the government should stay out of the economy as much as possible; the group of economists who followed his lead was called the Chicago School. (The university continues to employ more than its share of Nobel winners in economics, including Gary S. Becker, James J. Heckman and Roger B. Myerson.)But to critics, Friedman’s prescriptions, which were enthusiastically embraced by the Reagan administration as well as by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the 1980s and ’90s, caused severe hardships throughout the developing world. Friedman was also reviled in some quarters for his association with dictatorial regimes like that of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile. As an article in The Chicago Tribune noted, the institute “renews a split on campus about Friedman himself.”
