I asked Wojtek Solokowski to comment on Friedman's comment. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:45 AM, michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > thank you. > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Wojtek S <[email protected]> wrote: >> Right wing drivel, not worth the paper on which it is written imho. >> Lange had a high level government position (the head of the Council of >> State) in Poland in the 1960s, in addition to his academic >> appointments. The "watchdog" trope looks like a classical product of >> American anti-Soviet propaganda. >> >> Wojtek >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:19 PM, michael perelman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Comments? >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Jim Devine <[email protected]> >>> Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:11 AM >>> Subject: [Pen-l] Oscar Lange >>> To: Pen-l <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> In his book "How Markets Fail" (p. 60), John Cassidy quotes Milton & >>> Rose Friedman as saying the following: After Oscar Lange returned to >>> his native Poland in 1947, "By all reports, he ended up a tragic >>> figure, a willing puppet of the communist regime, never able to >>> achieve in practice what he had preached in theory.... His personal >>> life, also, was devastated. He abandoned his wife, who returned to the >>> U.S. a sad and lonely figure. When he traveled abroad, it was with >>> another woman, widely suspected of playing a dual role as companion >>> and communist watchdog." >>> >>> does anyone know anything about this? is there any truth to this story? >>> -- >>> Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to >>> be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But >>> in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Michael Perelman >>> Economics Department >>> California State University >>> Chico, CA >>> 95929 >>> >>> 530 898 5321 >>> fax 530 898 5901 >>> http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com >> >> >> >> -- >> Wojtek >> http://wsokol.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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