[https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/postwar-economics-right-wing-marshall-steinbaum-interview](https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/postwar-economics-right-wing-marshall-steinbaum-interview) [Edit: Down Vote the content above (not this comment) and up vote other version] “The Great Depression thoroughly discredited laissez-faire economics. But over the postwar decades, with the help of generous business funding and political connections, figures like Milton Friedman led a remarkable revival of nineteenth-century economic ideas. They did it by adopting a pseudo-populist rhetoric that celebrated individual choice and autonomy.”

I always thought the only relevant question about Friedman was if he was cynical or sincere? If sincere, which is possible, he was used and played by the Reactionary Right to help kill the New Deal, install Neoliberalism & kick off the Race to the Bottom.

The Great Depression thoroughly discredited laissez-faire economics. But over the postwar decades, with the help of generous business funding and political connections, figures like Milton Friedman led a remarkable revival of nineteenth-century economic ideas. They did it by adopting a pseudo-populist rhetoric that celebrated individual choice and autonomy.

>"The Great Depression thoroughly discredited laissez-faire economics. But over the postwar decades, with the help of generous business funding and political connections, figures like Milton Friedman led a remarkable revival of nineteenth-century economic ideas. They did it by adopting a pseudo-populist rhetoric that celebrated individual choice and autonomy."