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Milton Friedman fue un estadístico, economista e intelectual estadounidense de origen judío que se desempeñó como profesor de la Universidad de Chicago. Liberal y defensor de su doctrina sobre el libre mercado, Friedman realizó contribuciones importantes en los campos de macroeconomía, microeconomía, historia económica y estadística. En 1976 fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Economía por sus logros en los campos de análisis de consumo, historia y teoría monetaria, y por su demostración de la complejidad de la política de estabilización.



✵ 31. julio 1912 – 16. noviembre 2006
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Frases célebres de Milton Friedman

“Una sociedad que priorice la igualdad por sobre la libertad no obtendrá ninguna de las dos cosas. Una sociedad que priorice la libertad por sobre la igualdad obtendrá un alto grado de ambas.”

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Fuente: Frases de Milton Friedman http://www.qfrases.com/milton_friedman.php.

“La causa de la libre empresa, de la competencia, es la única que puede mantener a los capitalistas alejados de tener un poder excesivo. Hay un viejo dicho que reza: "si quieres cazar a un ladrón, llama a otro para que lo atrape". La virtud del capitalismo de libre empresa es aquél que coloca a un empresario frente a otro, y ese es el método más efectivo de control.”

Milton Friedman

Fuente: Frases de Milton Friedman http://www.libertaddigital.com/fragmentos/iniciativas/friedman/frases.htm. Libertad Digital.

“Mucha gente quiere que el gobierno proteja a los consumidores. Un problema mucho más urgente es proteger a los consumidores del gobierno.”

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“Uno de los más grandes errores es juzgar a las políticas y programas por sus intenciones, en lugar de por sus resultados.”

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Frases de fe de Milton Friedman

“«En cualquier sistema que deposita tanto poder al arbitrio de unos pocos hombres y cuyos errores, disculpables o no, pueden tener efectos tan profundos, es un sistema malo. Es un mal sistema para los que creen en la libertad, solo porque le da a unos pocos hombres tal poder sin un poder efectivo por parte del cuerpo político.”

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Refiriéndose a la Reserva Federal. Este es el argumento político crucial contra un banco central independiente».[Sin fuentes]

“Mucha gente se queja del despilfarro público, pero yo lo doy por bueno, por dos razones. En primer lugar la eficiencia no es nada deseable si alguien está haciendo algo malo. El Gobierno hace cosas que no queremos que haga, de modo que cuando más dinero despilfarre, mejor. En segundo lugar, el despilfarro lleva a los hogares de la gente el hecho de que el Gobierno no es un instrumento eficiente y efectivo para conseguir sus objetivos. Una de mis esperanzas es la desilusión creciente con la idea de que el Gobierno es ese hermano mayor siempre sabio, todopoderoso, que puede resolver cualquier problema que salte en el camino.”

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“Hay muchas variantes del liberalismo. Hay un liberalismo de gobierno cero; anarquista. Hay un liberalismo de gobierno limitado. Comparten un montón en términos de sus valores fundamentales. Si los llevas hasta sus últimos términos, son diferentes. No parece importar en la práctica, porque ambos queremos trabajar en la misma dirección.”

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“Sólo el gobierno es capaz de coger un papel perfectamente bueno, cubrirlo con tinta perfectamente buena y hacer una combinación absolutamente banal.”

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“Una fuente mayor de objeciones a la economía libre es precisamente que […] da a la gente lo que quiere, en vez de lo que un grupo particular piensa que debería querer. Subyacente a la mayoría de los argumentos contra el mercado libre existe una falta de fe en la libertad misma.”

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Sin fuentes

Frases sobre la libertad de Milton Friedman

“Los dos principales enemigos de la sociedad libre o de la libre empresa son los intelectuales, por un lado, y los hombres de negocio por el otro, y por motivos opuestos. Todo intelectual cree en la libertad para sí mismo, pero se opone a la libertad de los demás. Cree que debería haber una oficina de planificación central que establezca las prioridades sociales. El empresario es justo lo contrario. Todo empresario está a favor de la libertad de todos los demás, pero cuando se trata de él la cuestión cambia. Él es siempre el caso especial. Él debería tener privilegios específicos del Gobierno: una aduana, esto, aquello.”

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“Cualquier amigo de la libertad ha de revolverse como lo hago yo contra la perspectiva de convertir a los Estados Unidos en un campo armado, por la visión de las cárceles repletas por consumidores de drogas y por un ejército de burócratas con el poder de invadir la libertad de los ciudadanos, basándose en una evidencia somera.”

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“Aunque necesario para la libertad, el capitalismo sólo no es suficiente para garantizarla. Tiene que estar acompañado por un conjunto de valores y de instituciones políticas favorables a la libertad.”

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“Estoy a favor de legalizar las drogas. Según mi sistema de valores, si la mayoría de la gente quiere matarse a sí mismos, tienen todo el derecho de hacerlo. La mayoría de los problemas que vienen de las drogas son porque éstas son ilegales.”

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“El hombre libre no se pregunta ni qué puede hacer su país por él, ni qué puede hacer él por su país.”

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“Los grandes avances de la civilización, ya sean en arquitectura o pintura, en ciencia o literatura, jamás han venido de un gobierno central.”

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“Los gobiernos no aprenden jamás. Las personas sí lo hacen.”

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Sin fuentes

“está usted equivocado, a no ser que se refiera a la historia de EU del siglo pasado y la primera parte de este siglo. Desde 1933 EU ha ido en la dirección que México llevó a sus extremos. En estos momentos el Estado dispone de más del 50% del ingreso nacional a través de programas, regulaciones, mandatos, etc., el mejor ejemplo para ustedes es el Hong Kong de los últimos 30 años.”

Milton Friedman

Fuente: Hong Kong igual a libertad y prosperidad http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2008/02/hong-kong-igual.html.

“El salario mínimo impide a muchas personas obtener un empleo.”

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Sin fuentes

“Es una suerte que la sociedad libre sea más productiva, porque de no haberlo sido jamás se habría tolerado. El prejuicio en su contra es tan poderoso que es necesario tener una ventaja de cinco a uno para vencerlo.”

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“Siempre se ha argüido que el problema del capitalismo es que es materialista, mientras que el colectivismo puede permitirse prestar atención a lo no material. Pero la experiencia ha sido exactamente la contraria. No hay sociedades que hayan enfatizado los requisitos materiales del bienestar como las colectivistas. Son las sociedades libres las que, de lejos, han permitido un mayor desarrollo a los aspectos inmateriales, espirituales, artísticos del bienestar.”

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“Por supuesto, la existencia de un mercado libre no elimina la necesidad de un gobierno. Por el contrario, como hemos dicho, el gobierno es esencial como foro para determinar “las reglas del juego” y como árbitro para aplicar las reglas que se decidan.”

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Sin fuentes

“Estoy a favor de bajar los impuestos bajo cualquier circunstancia, por cualquier excusa y por cualquier razón, siempre que sea posible.”

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Sin fuentes

“La inflación es un impuesto sin legislación.”

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Sin fuentes

“La cantidad de dinero, precios y producción fueron definitivamente más inestables después de implantar el Sistema de la Reserva Federal.”

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Sin fuentes

“«La vida no es justa. es tentador creer que el gobierno puede corregir lo que la naturaleza ha generado.”

Milton Friedman

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.”

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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.”

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Sin fuentes

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

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Sin fuentes

“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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Sin fuentes

“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.”

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Sin fuentes

“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

“The average income of blacks here is far higher than the average income of all the people in the Soviet Union. The official government definition of the poverty line in the U. S. is higher than the average income in the Soviet Union; it’s higher than the income received by 90 percent of the people on the world’s surface. Now, that doesn’t mean blacks aren’t subject to injustice; of course they are.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn’t really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it and doesn’t just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can’t really afford to eliminate it—not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend. So the answer is to allow only pollution that’s worth what it costs, and not any pollution that isn’t worth what it costs.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The essence of the problem is that once we begin to allow exceptions for special interests, we move from a system of private arrangements to a political system where everyone’s freedom is limited and government becomes a matter of trying to balance those interests. Nobody really wins under these terms.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“We want the kind of world in which greedy people can do the least harm to their fellow men. That’s the kind of world in which power is widely dispersed and each of us has as many alternatives as possible.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“What kind of society isn’t structured on greed?… So the problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm. It seems to me that the great virtue of capitalism is that it’s that kind of system. Because under capitalism, the power of any one individual over his fellow man is relatively small.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The draft is inequitable because irrelevant considerations play so large a role in determining who serves. It is wasteful because deferment of students, fathers, and married men jams colleges, raises the birth rate, and fuels divorce court. It is inconsistent with a free society because it exacts compulsory service from some and limits the freedom of others to travel abroad, emigrate, or even to talk and act freely. So long as compulsion is retained, these defects are inevitable.”

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Fuente: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 189 (1975 edition)

“The old saw is that the Quakers went to the New World to do good and ended up doing well. Today, well-meaning reformers go to Washington to do good and end up doing harm.”

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Fuente: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 155

“A military draft is undesirable and unnecessary. We can and should man our armed forces with volunteers—as the United States has traditionally done except in major wars.”

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Fuente: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 121

“Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so? We may argue with him, seek to persuade him that he is wrong, but are we entitled to use coercion to prevent him from doing what he chooses to do? Is there not always the possibility that he is right and that we are wrong? Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Fuente: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 11, Social Welfare Measures, p. 187

“Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. This is a fundamentally subversive doctrine. If businessmen do have a social responsibility other than making maximum profits for stockholders, how are they to know what it is? Can self-selected private individuals decide what the social interest is? Can they decide how great a burden they are justified in placing on themselves or their stockholders to serve that social interest?”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Fuente: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 8 Monopoly and the Social Responsibility of Business and Labor, p. 133

“Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Fuente: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 2, The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 28

“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Fuente: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 15

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 5
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“As it developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the intellectual movement that went under the name of liberalism emphasized freedom as the ultimate goal and the individual as the ultimate entity in the society. It supported laissez faire at home as a means of reducing the role of the state in economic affairs and thereby enlarging the role of the individual; it supported free trade abroad as a means of linking the nations of the world together peacefully and democratically. In political matters, it supported the development of representative government and of parliamentary institutions, reduction in the arbitrary power of the state, and protection of the civil freedoms of individuals.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 5
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. … Government can never duplicate the variety and diversity of individual action.”

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Milton Friedman libro Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, pp. 2-3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society. So the really important thing about the Chilean business is that free markets did work their way in bringing about a free society.”

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“Commanding Heights, Interview on PBS” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html, (Oct. 1, 2000)

“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.”

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PBS “Interview: On freedom and free markets” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html Commanding Heights series (Oct. 1, 2000)

“Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.”

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Quoted in the House of Lords, (Nov. 24, 1994), also in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotes, Third Edition, Elizabeth Knowles, edit., Oxford University Press (2007) p. 124

“After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.”

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Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd and There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhfR8WC4Eo, Grand opening speech at Cato Institutes’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. (May 1993)

“The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.”

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” “Interview with Milton Friedman” https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-milton-friedman, David Levy, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (June 1, 1992)

“You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others. And what ultimately happens when you aim for equality is that A and B decide what C should do for D, except that they take a bit of commission off on the way.”

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“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)

“In my opinion, a society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. A society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.”

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“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)

“If you look at every program that the government has adopted in the direction of extending its scope, it took an enormous propaganda campaign by special propaganda groups to get those measures passed. There was no underlining public demand for those measures. On the contrary, the demand had to be created, it had to be developed, it had to be produced. And it was created, it was developed, it was produced, by people… who sincerely wanted to see an expansion in the scope of government.”

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“The Social Security Myth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdgv7n9xCY&t=124s (1980s)

“Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?”

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“Things That Ain’t So by Milton Friedman”, Newsweek (March 10, 1980) p. 79

“That is a widespread myth, that it is possible to spend money with nobody paying for it. You have everybody screaming that we ought to have new, bigger, more generous government programs. Where are we going to raise the money? Tax business. But business corporations can’t pay any taxes. A corporate executive may sign the check, but where does he get the money? From his stockholders or from his customers or from his employees. Unlike the federal government, he doesn’t have a printing press in his basement. So the only way he can pay money to the government is imposing a burden on somebody. Government cannot spend money at nobody’s expense.”

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“Economic Myths and Public Opinion” https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AmSpectator_01_1976.pdf, The Alternative: An American Spectator, vol. 9, no. 4, (January 1976) pp. 5-9

“This leads to my next myth—the myth that government can spend money at nobody’s expense. What was really involved in that last story was that somehow the local people do not pay out the money coming down from Washington somebody else does. Of course, the truth is that the money makes a round trip between Florida and Washington, and there is a discount taken off for cash as it passes through Washington. Some of you may remember that wonderful description of government by the French economist, Frederic Bastiat, who said that government is that fiction whereby everybody believes that he can live at the expense of everybody else.”

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“Economic Myths and Public Opinion” https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AmSpectator_01_1976.pdf, The Alternative: An American Spectator, vol. 9, no. 4, (January 1976) pp. 5-9

“The elementary truth is that the Great Depression was produced by government mismanagement. It was not produced by the failure of private enterprise, it was produced by the failure of government to perform a function which had been assigned to it.”

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" Economic Myths and Public Opinion https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AmSpectator_01_1976.pdf” The Alternative: An American Spectator vol. 9, no. 4, (January 1976) pp. 5-9, Reprinted in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1983) pp. 60-75

“I have been impressed time and again by the schizophrenic character of many businessmen. They are capable of being extremely far‐sighted and clear‐headed in matters that are internal to their businesses. They are incredibly short sighted and muddle‐headed in mat ters [sic!] that are outside their businesses but affect the possible survival of business in general. This short sightedness is strikingly exemplified in the calls from many businessmen for wage and price guidelines or controls or incomes policies. There is nothing that could do more in a brief period to destroy a market system and replace it by a centrally controlled system than effective governmental control of prices and wages. The short‐sightedness is also exemplified in speeches by business men on social responsibility. This may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the ptirsuit [sic!] of profits is wicked and im moral [sic!] and must be curbed and controlled by external forces. Once this view is adopted, the external forces that curb the market will not be the social consciences, however highly developed, of the pontificating executives; it will be the iron fist of Government bureaucrats. Here, as with price and wage controls, business men seem to me to reveal a suicidal impulse.”

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“A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” (Sept. 1970)

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