CMNS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-2: The Official Story, Data Mining, Preemptive War
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Three decades of erasing and remaking the world. A lot of people got killed uptown. Milton friedman grand guru of the movement for unfettered capitalism and the man credited with writing the rulebook for the contemporary, hypermobile global economy. Convert new orlean schools into charter school, publicly funded institutions run by private entities according to their own rules. Charter schools are seen by many african american parents as a way of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, which guaranteed all children the same standard of education. For milton friedman, the entire concept of a state-run school system reeked socialism. The state"s sole functions were to protect our freedom both from the enemies outside our gates and from our fellow-citizens :to preserve law and order, to enforce private contracts, to foster competitive markets. To supply the police and the soldiers, anything else, including providing free education, was an unfair interference in the market.