Hating Milton Friedman.

• Author: Root, Damon W.
• Position: Artifact - Anti-Friedman movement - Brief article

WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a protester disrupted the ceremony with shouts of "down with capitalism, freedom for Chile." Three decades later, in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein repackaged that outburst for a new generation of hecklers, blaming Friedman for Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship and the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It mattered little that Friedman had explicitly denounced both Pinochet's human rights abuses and the Iraq war.

The anti-Friedman movement has also manifested itself in the form of this sticker, which began appearing on walls, bus stops, and newspaper stands in Washington, D.C., in early 2009. The stark black-and-white design features Friedman's smiling face above the caption "Milton Friedman/Proud Father of...