<p>Number of Nobel Prize winners affiliated with each school, whether as students, staff, or faculty:</p>
<p>1) UChicago - 26
2) MIT - 20
3) Harvard - 18
4) Berkeley - 17
5) Stanford - 16
6) Columbia - 14
7) Yale - 13
8) Princeton - 12
9) London School of Economics - 11
10) Cambridge / Oxford / Carnegie Mellon - 9</p>
<p>What’s up with your obsession with rankings? Your past two posts have just restated easily attainable information. What’s your point?</p>
<p>Well, I think it’s informative and helpful.</p>
<p>It’s faculty and/or alumni. “Staff” don’t win Nobel prizes.</p>
<p>I also thought it was interesting information. Nothing wrong with more info as some may have not known the info.</p>
<p>Nah objective person you need to be a bit more comprehensive. UChicago primarily only produces the ideas - that is, thr thinkers, not the doers. So, while uchicago had an unusual run in Chile, surely you agree its the leaders from Harvard yale etc that have been the executives making most of the catastrophic decisions, no? Thank those folks for deciding to enter wars, commanding military forces, etc for much more time than anyone from uchicago.</p>
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<p>Friedman’s dead. Deal with it.</p>
<p>Come now, objective person - uchicago is #1 in chile with friedman’s support of Pinochet, but why just limit the critique to uchicago. If you’re going to point out fallacies in schools, why only post about uchicago? Schools - a lot of schools - become involved in pretty nasty stuff. Pinpointing blame at uchicago without qualifying anything is pretty irresponsible. You went to uchicago - you carry that supposed black mark and should therefore be better than that.</p>
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<p>Besides which, it’s Latin America. Home of the Banana Republic. Name a Latin American country that hasn’t been in the grip of a right-wing/left-wing/wing-nut hunta/brigade/what-have-you. Are you going to blame Argentina/Mexico/Peru/Colombia/Paraguay/etc. on Friedman, too? How about something really radical: How about you stop looking to blame others for your cultural dysfunction and just shape yourself up?</p>
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<p>P.S. Viva Malvinas! LOL</p>
<p>Friedman’s intentions were to advocate for what he believed to be a more efficient and ultimately prosperous economic system. If we’re going to point fingers for the Chilean Coup we might as well place the blame on Nixon, a Duke law school grad, and Kissinger, a Harvard graduate school grad. Do you suggest we all turn against Harvard and Duke because of an event that happened 40 years ago (and was very horrific indeed, I’m not trying to make it seem like less of a bigger deal)? If so, why limit ourselves to the Chilean Coup of 72? Let’s go back to just a few years ago and rally against all the top 20+ schools that educated the governmental leaders and Wall Street execs who played an active role in the US’s (and indeed a lot of the world’s) financial ruin. Greed and lust for power have existed since before the concept of a college was thought of, and unfortunately a great education sometimes is not enough to expunge these out of people. I don’t think the rotten apples that pass through these institutions should damage their reputations or those of their visionaries with good intentions.</p>
<p>PMCM18: Agreed. Objectiveperson pinpoints UChicago a lot, but never talks about all the atrocities and disasters produced by graduates from lots of other top schools. Objectiveperson is right that UChicago has a checkered past, but speaking about it in isolation without mentioning loads of other schools (or qualifying the statements in any way) presents a really, really skewed picture.</p>
<p>Indeed, and I would just like to point out that I’m quite left leaning and skew more towards Keynesian economics, so this is not an attempt to defend Friedman because he is some sort of ideological god for me.</p>