Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 31. Juli 1912 |
Geburtsort | Brooklyn |
Todesort | California |
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Beschreibung | Milton Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; 31. Juli 1912 - 16. November 2006) war ein amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Statistiker, der 1976 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für seine Forschungen zur Konsumanalyse, zur Geldgeschichte und -theorie und zur Komplexität der Stabilisierungspolitik erhielt. Zusammen mit George Stigler und anderen gehörte Friedman zu den intellektuellen Führern der Chicagoer Schule der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, einer neoklassischen Schule des wirtschaftlichen Denkens, die mit der Arbeit der Fakultät der Universität Chicago verbunden ist und die den Keynesianismus zugunsten des Monetarismus bis Mitte der 1970er Jahre ablehnte, als sie sich der neuen klassischen Makroökonomie zuwandte, die sich stark auf das Konzept der rationalen Erwartungen stützte. Mehrere Studenten, junge Professoren und Akademiker, die von Friedman in Chicago rekrutiert oder betreut wurden, wurden später zu |
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
