One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China. Noticing the sheer number of human laborers digging away with shovels, he asked the official in charge why they weren't getting the work done faster with excavators and other modern machines.
One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China.
Noticing the sheer number of human laborers digging away with shovels, he asked the official in charge why they weren't getting the work done faster with excavators and other modern machines.
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One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China. Noticing the sheer number of human laborers digging away with shovels, he asked the official in charge why they weren't getting the work done faster with excavators and other modern machines.
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