At 04:27 PM 7/10/2002 -0500, Metric US wrote: >Today on Euronews it was reported that Milton Friedman has expressed his >prediction that the EU together with its common currency the Euro will >desintegrate within 5 years. > >I assume he also expects the metric system to desintegrate with it. Is >this why they pushed the EU to postpone it's metric only labelling >resolution until 2010?
Just because you don't like his prediction about the EU and the euro, don't presume things to which he made no reference. I rather doubt that Milton Friedman would extend his prediction to the metric system, for many reasons: metric is used in many times more countries as the euro, metric has been around far, far longer, countries may fight over tariffs and trade wars and currency policies, but (metric) countries don't fight over measurement systems. Etc., etc., etc. Wizard, Milton Friedman is one of the most famous (or infamous, depending on your beliefs) Nobel-prize winners in the field of economics of the 20th century. Yes, he is also an American. Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
