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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]U. of Chicago is the home of the "Chicago School" of economics.  This is a school of thought most famously promulgated by Milton Friedman, who espoused a purely lassez-faire approach to economic policy that approached social darwinism, and has been a favorite touchstone of oligarchs everywhere.

The dictatorship of the bloody-handed murderer Augusto Pinochet in Chile explicitly looked to the Chicago School for its economic policies, regardless of the human and social costs that followed.  [/quote]

Yes, and the Chicago School has also heavily influenced U.S. economic and legal thinking. See, for example, current Supreme Court. [/quote]

I'm a liberal economist without any affiliation to U Chicago. You sound nuts when you write things like, "Milton Friedman... make that the entire U Chicago ...  have single-handedly ruined our economy ... and our judicial system! It's a conspiracy!"

Please stop urging OP to deny her son a fine education at U Chicago, just because some Chilean students in the 1970s attended grad school there. Newsflash: the University of Chicago is more than just a single graduate school in economics. Yes, the economics department there is conservative. But there are plenty of other schools there. They are really pushing the arts these days, for example. OP's kid can get the great education in humanities and CS he wants there, without having to interact with the Econ department for a single second.

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