Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University, had to correct herself Saturday evening after mixing up two "very different" economists during a lengthy Instagram discussion. "UGGGH TYPO,” the freshman congresswoman wrote after confusing John Maynard Keynes, an early 20th-century British economist who theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth, with Milton Friedman, a free-market American economist and 1976 Nobel Prize winner, according to The Washington Examiner. Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly combined their names into "Milton Keynes." AOC, BOYFRIEND DISCUSS ‘COMBATING RACISM AS A WHITE PERSON’ ON INSTAGRAM“It's John Maynard Keynes,” she clarified in a later Instagram story. “Mixed his name with Milton Friedman — a (very) different economist.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPOcasio-Cortez, who considers herself a democratic socialist, advocates for Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage, among other progressive economic ideas.

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