Milton Friedman

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July 31, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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November 16, 2006

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Milton Friedman was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. He made major contributions to the fields of economics and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. He was an advocate of economic freedom.

According to The Economist, Friedman "was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century...possibly of all of it". Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan stated, "There are very few people over the generations who have ideas that are sufficiently original to materially alter the direction of civilization. Mil...more

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	Capitalism and Freedom 3.87 avg rating — 1,827 ratings — published 1962 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman, Rose Friedman 4.22 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 1980 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History by Milton Friedman, Douglas H. Latimer (Photographer), G.B.D. Smith (Designed by) 4.06 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz 3.96 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Why Government Is the Problem 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Price Theory by Milton Friedman, Steven Medema (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1976 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Great Contraction 1929-1933 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions	My rating:
	There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Essays in Positive Economics 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1953	My rating:
	Two Lucky People: Memoirs by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman

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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

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“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”
― Milton Friedman

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