There is also something wonderfully dishonest about a book on globalization and liberalization that completely ignores India, almost 15% of the worlds population.
That is an excellent summary of Milt's ideas (you missed off the 'land value tax is the least-bad tax quote, is all). But he is only remembered for one or two of his bright ideas which Thatcher/Reagan adopted, which do not do The Great Man the credit he so richly deserves.
Excellent JP! Naomi Klein is an utter moron who cuts any cloth to suit whatever hobby-horse she's currently riding however irrationally. I wouldn't be surprised if she ended-up defending her inaccuracies by 'fessing-up that they allowed her to reveal a deeper truth or some similar bunk.
She is thoroughly bunkrupt.
Naomi Klein?
Pah!
As a daughter of upper-middle class Jewish professional liberals, who fled to Canada to criticise the US from the safety of another country, her credentials for emotive drivel flying a banner of 'social justice' are beyond reproach.
I hated her the second I cracked the spine of 'No Logo' and realised she was 25 when applying all her maturity, insight and thoughtfulness to the issue of global capitalism - only to tell us that Walmart's refusal to sell certain corrupt examples of Western popular music was 'censorship'.
Shame on her for smearing Milton Friedman - more of a real scholar than Klein could ever be.
Eddie W. has it exactly right. Naomi probably spends more per month on having her nails wrapped and hair teased than the annual budget of Burkina Fasso. But then she is a product of (private) St. George's school in Montreal and any English speaking Montrealer who is not a St. George's alum knows what that means - do as I say not as I do.
"The smarter parts of the left are starting to notice."
Yes, but the other 99.9% is slobbering over her crap.
Naomi Klein is not the only rich leftie pinhead who feels they can criticise someone like Friedman without knowing the first thing about his work.
Only this Saturday I read a lifestyle interview in the Daily Telegraph with the film maker Nick Broomfield. Asked what he wished had never been invented, he replied:
"Milton Friedman's theories on free market economy, which are responsible for the greed and extremely dangerous world we live in today."
It's true people, Milton Friedman invented greed, and is even now working hard with the Iranians to develop the atomic bomb. I'd like to bet whatever Broomfield spends on lunch that he has never read a single word Friedman has written, but I'm not an immensely rich right-on media luvvie, so I doubt I could afford it.