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Patinkin, Johnson, and the Shadow of Friedman

Patinkin, Johnson, and the Shadow of Friedman History of Political Economy 32:4 (2000) at it. . . . I shall certainly be disappointed if someone doesn’t write a rejoinder to it.”1 Some of his opponents reacted more strongly than perhaps he had bargained for. Toward the end of the “monetarist decade” (1975–84), David Hendry and Neil Ericsson presented an explosive critique of Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s Monetary Trends (1982). Titled “Assertion without Empirical Basis,” they concluded that Friedman and Schwartz’s “assertions” were “devoid of credibility. . . . rigorous evaluation of empirical claims seems a necessary first step towards taking the con out of economics” (1983, 82; 1991). The London Guardian of 15 December 1983 reported the Hendry and Ericsson paper under the title “Monetarist’s guru ‘distorts his evidence.”’ Friedman was incensed and wrote to Hendry requesting that he disown the account in the Guardian. But Hendry replied that “if your assertion is true that newspapers have produced ‘a spate of libellous and slanderous’ articles ‘impugning Anna Schwartz’s and [your] honesty and integrity’ then you must have ready recourse to a legal solution” (letter from Hendry to Friedman, 13 July 1984, quoted in Hammond 1996, 199). Friedman’s star rose to spectacular heights following his successful http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png History of Political Economy Duke University Press

Patinkin, Johnson, and the Shadow of Friedman

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press
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0018-2702
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1527-1919
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10.1215/00182702-32-4-733
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Abstract

History of Political Economy 32:4 (2000) at it. . . . I shall certainly be disappointed if someone doesn’t write a rejoinder to it.”1 Some of his opponents reacted more strongly than perhaps he had bargained for. Toward the end of the “monetarist decade” (1975–84), David Hendry and Neil Ericsson presented an explosive critique of Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s Monetary Trends (1982). Titled “Assertion without Empirical Basis,” they concluded that Friedman and Schwartz’s “assertions” were “devoid of credibility. . . . rigorous evaluation of empirical claims seems a necessary first step towards taking the con out of economics” (1983, 82; 1991). The London Guardian of 15 December 1983 reported the Hendry and Ericsson paper under the title “Monetarist’s guru ‘distorts his evidence.”’ Friedman was incensed and wrote to Hendry requesting that he disown the account in the Guardian. But Hendry replied that “if your assertion is true that newspapers have produced ‘a spate of libellous and slanderous’ articles ‘impugning Anna Schwartz’s and [your] honesty and integrity’ then you must have ready recourse to a legal solution” (letter from Hendry to Friedman, 13 July 1984, quoted in Hammond 1996, 199). Friedman’s star rose to spectacular heights following his successful

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Published: Dec 1, 2000

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