Engelsk tekst af Johan Norberg:
»She writes that Friedman acted as ’adviser to the Chilean dictator’. This is wrong. Friedman never worked as an adviser and never accepted a penny from the Chilean regime. He even turned down two honorary degrees from Chilean universities that received government funding because he thought it could be interpreted as a support for the regime«.
»However, he was in Chile for six days in March 1975 to give public lectures, invited by a private foundation. When he was there he also met once with Pinochet for around 45 minutes, and wrote him one letter afterwards, arguing for a plan to end hyperinflation and liberalize the economy. That was the same kind of advice Friedman gave to communist dictatorships like the Soviet Union, China and Yugoslavia, yet nobody would claim he was a communist«.
Dansk tekst af Arzrouni: »Klein hævder, at Friedman var ’rådgiver’ for diktatoren. Det er slet og ret forkert. Friedmann fik ikke så meget som en cent fra det chilenske styre. Han afslog endda ved to lejligheder æresdoktorater fra chilenske universiteter af frygt for, at det kunne opfattes som støtte til diktaturet. Men det er korrekt, at han var seks dage i Chile i 1975 på en forelæsningsturne, og at han ved den lejlighed mødte Pinochet i 45 minutter. I et efterfølgende brev anbefalede Friedman generalen at anvende præcis de samme økonomiske reformer, som han anbefalede kommunister i Rusland og Kina. Alligevel er Friedman aldrig blevet kaldt tilhænger af kommunismen«.
JohanNorberg: »According to Klein, ’neoliberal’ economists welcomed Hurricane Kathrina, 2004 Indonesean tsunami. the Iraq War, and the South American military coups of the 1970’s as opportunities to erase past policies and introduce radical freemarket models. If wars and disasters aren’t enough to shock the citizens, neoliberals are purportedly happy to see the opponents of reform being attacked and tortured into submission«.
