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George
I understand that feeling completely. My feeling was that underneath all that tradition, prep school hauteur and purported advanced scholarship, there was a left wing bias that was taken axiomatically as being beyond dispute.
I think a lot of us realize now that we never got the full story. I studied econ and everything was Keynes, Keynes, Keynes. We never heard a whisper about Von Mises, Hayek and other classical economists. Only the Marxian redistributionist statist nonsense. Milton Friedman was tolerated because he believed in central banking as the engine of econ policy. I remember George Lodge arguing passionately for Federal chartering of corporations and national economic planning!! And all the Andover Acamedy and Exeter types nodding their heads approving.
BTW, George Bush Jr. graduated same year I did ('75) and had his head screwed on right even back then. He also played a great game of 3-on-3 basketball and ran in the Boston Marathon. Good man
At Harvard Business School, we never talked about capitalism, such was fashion of the time. Look to Europe for enlightened social policies -even tho Europe has been getting it wrong for 2 millilenia.
Whenever I think of the Eastern Bloc, I don't think of Hungary, Czech., Poland, anymore, I think, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.
I don't know if this helps asnd ascend but it's nice to hear from you about this mutual experience.
Take care, George.
Daniel |
