tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561055876049089768.post668426377621975123..comments2013-09-13T00:33:52.184-03:00Comments on Robert L. Funk: Milton and the EarthquakeRobert Funkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892449110573783350noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561055876049089768.post-8696436997649881082010-03-07T13:01:05.099-03:002010-03-07T13:01:05.099-03:00I try not to pay too much attention to Naomi Klein...I try not to pay too much attention to Naomi Klein, who is as biased as the Wall Street Journal. She makes a few good points, but her ideological blinders make her stuble into simplifications. To blame the 82 crisis on corruption is just wrong. To credit Allende with the building codes (although she does make a sidebar reference to earlier efforts) is wrong. I mean, you could argue that the churches built in the 16th and 17th centuries survived too -- so we should credit the Franciscans and Dominicans as well.Robert Funkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892449110573783350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561055876049089768.post-87082869843117324312010-03-06T17:46:32.029-03:002010-03-06T17:46:32.029-03:00I think Naomi Klein's rebuttal in The Nation i...I think <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100315/klein" rel="nofollow">Naomi Klein's rebuttal in The Nation</a> is also pretty effective at dismantling Stephens's porous argument as well. Chile's building codes remain tough and fully enforced <i>in spite of</i> Friedman and the Chicago Boys (and their odious ideological heirs at the Wall Street Journal).Reed M. Kurtzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07028030188509083518noreply@blogger.com