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Milton Friedman (/ ˈ f r iː d m ən / ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. [4]
The Machinery of Freedom (full text PDF file of the third edition) The Machinery of Freedom at Friedman's personal website, including free chapters of the book "Illustrated Video Summary of The Machinery of Freedom" on YouTube "Economics of David D. Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom: Some similarities and dissimilarities to the Austrian school"
The effects of Capitalism and Freedom were great yet varied in the realm of political economics. Some of Friedman's suggestions are being tested and implemented in many places, such as the flat income tax in Estonia (since 1994) and Slovakia (since 2004), a floating exchange rate which has almost fully replaced the Bretton Woods system, and ...
Friedman introduced the theory in a 1970 essay for The New York Times titled "A Friedman Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits". [2] In it, he argued that a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders. [2]
The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-16294-1. Hayek, Friedrich A. (1975). The Pure Theory of Capital. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-32081-2. Hayek, Friedrich A. (1963). Capitalism and the Historians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
A further significant branching of Chicago thought was dubbed by George Stigler as "Chicago political economy". Inspired by the Coasian view that institutions evolve to maximize the Pareto efficiency, Chicago political economy came to the surprising and controversial view that politics tends towards efficiency and that policy advice is irrelevant.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...
Its critics however, had by then long pointed out the flaw in Friedman's reasoning: by shielding assumptions from the requirement of realism, Friedman admits falsehoods as part of his theory. He defends against this by requiring only certain phenomena of interest to be explained, but as Samuelson pointed out, this can lead to unscientific ...