this is important because this is the problem with how the United States, with the Chicago Boys, completely upended the concept of national economic activity. it was not something to observe, it was something to engineer and manage.
Milton Friedman, gaslighter extraordinaire and big daddy of neoliberals everywhere, believed so much in free markets that he high-fived the assassination of Salvador Allende and hand-picked Pinochet for his buddy Kissinger…