• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m a dumb American and don’t know who this is. He didn’t really do that did he? What the fuck is going on.

    • Denjin@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      Codified the concept on lessaiz faire economics giving a pseudo-academic justification for the Reaganite and Thatcherite fiscal policies that are broadly responsible for the sorry state of public services in America and Britain today.

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    6 months ago

    I kid you not, ive seen Nepalis building a house using a loooong line of people passing shallow dishes of cement along to the top of the building. It certainly looked like exactly this kind of job creation scheme… Friedman can fuck off, though.