Andre Gunder Frank sent us this gem.
Milton Friedman ended his 1976 Nobel Prize lecture with the observation:
"The drastic change that has occurred in economic theory has not been the result of ideological warfare. It has responded almost entirely to the force of events; brute experience proved far more potent than the strongest of political or ideological preferences"
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It's Uncle Miltie's version of Che's quip that "It's not _my_ fault that reality is Marxist!"
jks
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