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...with and later married a French woman raised in Morocco who sensitized him to the wealth of non-Western cultures. he explains. At the same time the student uprisings that brought Paris to a near-standstill in 1968 helped to dispel Marglin's belief in the immutability of the capitalist order. Marglin returned to Harvard no longer believing that the liberal position made sense...
Like a good card-carrying capitalist, Friedman has turned the television series into a cottage industry. He and his wife Rose have written a book to go along with the programs. It is also entitled Free to Choose (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $9.95) and amplifies his thoughts on the relationship between political and economic freedom...
...have discussion groups and exchanges of views," says Bernard Kamwi, a Namibian teacher. "We talk about building a just society, how to eradicate the capitalist system, how to give the toiling masses of Namibia a say in what is happening...
What the U.S. sees-and seeks-as "containment" of Soviet power, the Kremlin sees and fears as "encirclement" by its enemies. That fear has driven Soviet foreign policy since 1917. The Bolsheviks were then surrounded and even invaded by hostile capitalist countries. The word Kremlin means fortress-an accurate reflection of the mentality there...
Many of the themes of the decade were woven around the idea of diminution, of things running out. Paul Volcker, head of the Federal Reserve Board, said last fall it was his view that the American standard of living would have to decline-a serious crack in traditional capitalist optimism. The '70s reverberated with dark prophecies. In 1972 the Club of Rome proclaimed "the limits to growth." Economist Robert Heilbroner preached the Hobbesian nightmare, hell on earth as resources vanish and social systems deteriorate. Another economist, Harvard's Wassily Leontief, gave the world only 20 years...