If you stack Chicago School (fascist) economists at the bottom of Lake Michigan, would the resulting methane cause global
warming to increase rapidly? No, but it would worth trying. I don’t have the
right data now, but I could extrapolate from the dead body of their boy Augusto
Pinochet whose bones could still be required to do time in a Spanish jail.
IshitUnot: Naked
capitalism
Steve
Levitt: Like a True Chicago
Boy, Likes People to Go to Jail so Markets Can Be Free
Yves
here. Readers reacted positively to the
inaugural report by the S.H.A.M.E Project on Malcolm Gladwell. S.H.A.M.E. ,
stands for “Shame the Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics.” Its approach is to provide
information about the background and funding sources of well-recognized
journalists and pundits so that the public will be in a better position to recognize bias and hidden agendas in their
reporting and analysis.
This
second report, on the widely-read economist Steve Levitt, overlaps strongly
with NC’s beat. Note that this dossier format is the one S.H.A.M.E. plans to
use for future releases.
By
S.H.A.M.E Project
Steven
D. Levitt
Co-author
of #1 Bestseller Freakonomics; Economics Professor at the University of Chicago
Named
one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who
Shape Our World,” Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, is generally
assumed to be a harmless, quirky pop economist for trivia nerds. However,
Levitt has a history of attacking
teachers’ unions, advocating for the privatization of prison labor, defending online gambling and occasionally
crossing over the fringe-right line by promoting climate change denialism
and, some have argued, racial eugenics.
A dyed-in-the-wool Milton Friedman
neoliberal from the same “Chicago Boys” network that brought you the “shock doctrine,” Levitt’s idea of
economics Utopia is a world in which “the
market” solves all our problems and government is restricted to protecting
property rights.
