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Milton Friedman

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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.


— Milton Friedman


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Governments never learn. Only people learn.


— Milton Friedman


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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.


— Milton Friedman


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Inflation is taxation without legislation.


— Milton Friedman


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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.


— Milton Friedman


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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.


— Milton Friedman


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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.


— Milton Friedman


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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.


— Milton Friedman


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There's no such thing as a free lunch.


— Milton Friedman


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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.


— Milton Friedman


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Did you know about Milton Friedman?

Friedman proposed a negative income tax to replace the existing welfare system. Friedman's essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953) provided the epistemological pattern for his own subsequent research and to a degree that of the Chicago School. He once stated that his role in eliminating U.

He theorized there existed a "natural" rate of unemployment and argued that governments could increase employment above this rate (e. by increasing aggregate demand) only at the risk of causing inflation to accelerate. His ideas concerning monetary policy taxation privatization and deregulation influenced government policies especially during the 1980s.

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