Word: sandel
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With the caveat that “as a reporter I would never put this in the paper,” Friedman jokingly suggested that Sandel had been one of the costumed protesters who hurled objects into store windows during the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle. Addressing Sandel as “Mr. Dress-up-like-a-turtle-and-throw-a-stone-through-a-McDonald’s-window,” Friedman said that “by the end of this course you will concede that the problem is not that we have too much globalization...
After Friedman’s paean to globalization, Sandel quipped, “I never thought that it would be possible to make President Summers look like a warm and fuzzy liberal...
After delivering a trenchant rebuttal of Friedman, Sandel set his sights on Summers, who was a prominent advocate for global integration as chief economist at the World Bank and later as Secretary of the Treasury. Sandel mercilessly mocked Summers’ now-famous aphorism: “In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” Friedman has cited Summers’ quotation in four separate Times columns over the last two years...
...don’t want to be remembered for that saying above all others,” Sandel told Summers. Then he turned to the audience and added, “Well, given the alternatives now, maybe he does...
After noting that at least one person—a retired Georgetown University sociologist named Norman Birnbaum—has indeed washed a rental car, Sandel argued that Summers’ adage is a “normative claim thinly disguised.” Summers mistakenly assumes that all people act only in their own self-interest, Sandel said...