这里是《魔鬼经济学》的作者（之一）史蒂芬·列维特在博客里关于此事的评论。(
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytime ... friedman-institute/)
反对建立“弗里德曼研究中心”的人主要是认为它将成为一个右翼思想集团，并且会毁坏芝加哥大学的声誉。
列维特自己的观点是：
The Chicago economics department views the world differently than anyone else, even other economics departments. Having learned my economics at Harvard and M.I.T., I took my first teaching job at Chicago with the very explicit idea that I would spend two or three years in Chicago to get to “know the enemy.” After I figured out how they thought, I would escape back to more comfortable surroundings. （芝加哥大学经济学系对这个世界看法是与众不同的。我从哈佛大学和麻省理工学院毕业后，到芝大开始了我第一份教书工作，我当时想我在芝大可能得花两三年的时间去“认识敌人”。当我学会了他们的思考方式后，我就离开这里，换一个更舒服的地方。）
Well two things happened that I didn’t expect. First, it turned out that it wasn’t so easy to learn to think like a Chicago economist. I’ve been trying to learn for more than a decade and I still have learned only the rudiments. Every day my colleagues teach me something I should know, but don’t. Second, I decided that the Chicago approach to economics was the right one for me, even though I am not that good at it. （但有两件事让我始料未及，一、我发现要学习芝大经济学家的思考方式十分困难。我尝试了超过10年时间也只是学到了一点皮毛。同事们每天都教我一些新的东西。二、尽管我不擅长，但我认定芝大的经济学道路对我来说是一条正确的道路）
A diversity of views is almost always a good thing. Relative to Harvard, M.I.T., Princeton, Stanford, and other top schools, the Chicago economics department is small both in terms of size and resources. The Friedman Institute will increase the scale at which Chicago economics will operate, giving us a better chance of competing with the other top schools for faculty and students. The Friedman Institute will help us compete in the marketplace for ideas.（观点百花齐放几乎总是一件好事。比起哈佛、麻省理工、普林斯顿、斯坦福等顶尖大学，芝加哥大学的经济系在规模和资源上都大小了。弗里德曼研究中心的成立将有助于扩大芝大经济系的规模，使我们教员和学生能有更好机会与其它顶尖学校竞争。弗里德曼研究中心还将有助于我们在“思想市场”的竞争。）
And what economist — Chicago or otherwise — could argue with that?（这还有什么好争论的吗？）
