Frases de Milton Friedman (196 citas, página 2)

Fuente: De la cátedra dada en Harvard "Justice" por Michael Sandel vía "edx", la cita se encuentra en la lectura 16 "Distributive Justice: Who deserves what?».

“Los almuerzos gratis no existen.”

Milton Friedman

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Original: «Nunquam prandium liberum».

“Si un intercambio entre dos partes es voluntario, no tendrá lugar a menos que ambas partes crean que se beneficiarán de él. La mayoría de las falacias económicas derivan del perder de vista esta simple reflexión.”

Milton Friedman

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“Tenemos un sistema que cobra cada vez más impuestos al trabajo y subsidia el no trabajar.”

Milton Friedman

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“Los verdaderos impuestos al pueblo no son lo que usted llama impuestos, son los gastos públicos totales. Si el congreso gasta más dinero del que le entra, si el gobierno gasta todo ese dinero, ¿quién cree usted que lo está pagando? Santa Claus no lo está pagando, un hada no lo está pagando… usted y yo, como contribuyentes, lo estamos pagando indirectamente a través de la tributación oculta, y por eso el punto crucial es reducir los gastos totales del gobierno.”

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“En los únicos casos en los que las masas se han escapado de la clase de miseria absoluta que estás hablando, los únicos casos registrados en la historia, son donde se ha tenido capitalismo y en gran parte libre comercio. Si quieres saber donde las masas están en peor situación, peores condiciones, es exactamente en el tipo de sociedades que se apartan de eso. De modo que el registro de la historia es absolutamente cristalina, que no existe una forma alternativa hasta ahora descubierta de mejorar la situación de las personas comunes y corrientes que pueden sostener una vela a las actividades productivas que se desencadenan por el sistema de libre empresa.”

Milton Friedman

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“Nadie gasta el dinero de otra persona tan cuidadosamente como gasta el suyo. Nadie usa los recursos de otra persona con tanto cuidado como utiliza los suyos. Así que si quieres la eficiencia y la eficacia, si desea que el conocimiento sea utilizado apropiadamente, usted tiene que hacerlo a través de los medios de propiedad privada.”

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Milton Friedman: Frases en inglés

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

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Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎ (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77

“If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”

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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

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Fuente: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15

“Society doesn't have values. People have values.”

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From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.

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

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“The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of a country.”

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Fuente: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50

“Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.”

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“He moves fastest who moves alone.”

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“Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

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Milton Friedman libro Free to Choose

Fuente: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", page 13
Contexto: The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

“We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.”

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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.”

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As quoted in ‪If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) ‬by John Mitchinson, p. 87

“The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.”

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Financial Times [UK] (7 June 2003)

“So far, twenty-two people have received the Nobel award in economics. Not one of them has been female—so, to judge only from the past, the most important thing to do if you want to be a Nobel laureate is to be male. I hasten to add that the absence of females is not, I believe, attributable to male chauvinist bias on the part of the Swedish Nobel Committee. I believe that the economics profession as a whole would have been nearly unanimous that, during the period in question, only one female candidate met the relevant standards—the English economist Joan Robinson, who has since died. The failure of the Nobel Committee to award her a prize may well have reflected bias but not sex bias. The economists here will understand what I am talking about. … A second requirement is to be a U. S. citizen. Twelve of the twenty-two recipients of the Nobel Prize were from the United States, four from the United Kingdom, two from Sweden, and one each from four other countries. … Of the twelve Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in economics, nine either studied or taught at the University of Chicago. So the next lesson is to go to the University of Chicago.”

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"Milton Friedman" in William Breit and Roger W. Spencer (ed.) Lives of the laureates

“With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.”

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Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X

“Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.”

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Milton Friedman libro Free to Choose

Fuente: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 5 “Created Equal”, p. 147

“The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.”

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Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg

“The term money has two very different meanings in popular discourse. We often speak of someone "making money," when we really mean that he or she is receiving an income. We do not mean that he or she has a printing press in the basement churning out greenbacked pieces of paper. In this use, money is a synonym for income or receipts; it refers to a flow, to income or receipts per week or per year. We also speak of someone's having money in his or her pocket or in a safe-deposit box or on deposit at a bank. In that use, money refers to an asset, a component of one's total wealth. Put differently, the first use refers to an item on a profit-and-loss statement, the second to an item on a balance sheet”

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Fuente: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Analysis of the supply of money, and in particular of changes in the supply of money, is simple in principle but extremely complex in practice, both in our hypothetical world and in the current real world. Simple in principle, because the supply of money is whatever the monetary authorities make if, complex in practice, because the decisions of the monetary authorities depend on numerous factors.”

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Fuente: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“One reason why money is a mystery to so many is the role of myth or fiction or convention.”

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Fuente: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“An income tax intended to reduce inequality and promote the diffusion of wealth has in practice fostered reinvestment of corporate earnings, thereby favoring the growth of large corporations, inhibiting the operation of the capital market, and discouraging the establishment of new enterprises.”

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Fuente: (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion, 2002 edition, p. 198

“The price system works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. We never realize how well it functions until it is prevented from functioning, and even then we seldom recognize the source of the trouble.”

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Milton Friedman libro Free to Choose

Fuente: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14

“Why should they also be accepted by private persons in private transactions in exchange for goods and services?
The short answer—and the right answer—is that private persons accept these pieces of paper because they are confident that others will. The pieces of green paper have value because everybody thinks they have value. Everybody thinks they have value because in everybody's experience they have had value…”

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Fuente: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Contexto: The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

“They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government… the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.”

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Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg

“If we are to use effectively these abstract models and this descriptive material, we must have a comparable exploration of the criteria for determining what abstract model it is best to use for particular kinds of problems, what entities in the abstract model are to be identified with what observable entities, and what features of the problem or of the circumstances have the greatest effect on the accuracy of the predictions yielded by a particular model or theory.”

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"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)

“As Adam Smith once said, "There is much ruin in a nation". Our basic structure of values and the interwoven network of free institutions will withstand much. I believe that we shall be able to preserve and extend freedom despite the size of the military programs and despite the economic powers already concentrated in Washington. But we shall be able to do so only if we awake to the threat that we face, only if we persuade our fellowmen that free institutions offer a surer, if perhaps at times a slower, route to the ends they seek than the coercive power of the state. The glimmerings of change that are already apparent in the intellectual climate are a hopeful augury.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Fuente: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion