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To: John Pitera who wrote (38136)6/6/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42523
 
i actually met Friedman at a conference in Vienna once...i haven't read any of his books, but i'm familiar with his ideas. monetarist ideas are seemingly completely alien to the Brussels bureaucracy. Keynes is probably the limit of their economic horizon....

and yes, the EU's subsidies are a political tool...for buying votes and keeping certain constituencies within the EU happy.