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hatrack

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8. What a perfect choice - for economics in general and for Chicago specifically

Reply to BelgianMadCow (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 07:36 AM

Feb 2014

I can't think of a single institution that's so vigorously fucked the world for decades than the Chicago School.

Void, amoral, and untouched by reality.

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