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”What was particularly exciting [about Milton Friedman and the Chicago School economics] were the same qualities that made Marxism so appealing to many other young people at the time,” recalled the economist Don Patinkin, who studied at Chicago in the forties – ”simplicity together with apparent logical completeness; idealism combined with radicalism.” The Marxists had their workers’ utopia, and the Chicagoans had their entrepreneurs’ utopia, both claiming that if they got their way, perfection and balance would follow. (Naomi Klein 2007: The Shock Doctrine. The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.)