On Tue, November 11, 1997 at 16:05:50 (-0400) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>friends,
>
>thanks to robert saute for his comments on friedman speaking.
>friedman is one of the most odious economists around. even some on
>the nobel committee did not support him, one presumably becasue of his
>penchant for misusing data.
Speaking of which, those who are interested in Milton's penchant for
"massaging" data to fit his theories might find interesting Paul
Diesing's "Hypothesis Testing and Data Interpretation: The Case of
Milton Friedman", *Research in the History of Economic Thought and
Methodology*, Volume 3, pp 61-89, 1985.
Bill
