„Die soziale Verantwortung der Wirtschaft ist es ihre Profite zu vergrößern.“
The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970
Original engl.: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits."
Milton Friedman war ein US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, der fundamentale Arbeiten auf den Gebieten der Makroökonomie, der Mikroökonomie, der Wirtschaftsgeschichte und der Statistik verfasste. Er erhielt 1976 den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für seine Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Analyse des Konsums, der Geschichte und der Theorie des Geldes und für seine Demonstration der Komplexität der Stabilitätspolitik. Friedman wird neben John Maynard Keynes als der einflussreichste Ökonom des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts angesehen.Friedman, der sich selbst als klassischen Liberalen betrachtete, hob besonders die Vorteile eines freien Marktes und die Nachteile staatlicher Eingriffe hervor. Seine Grundhaltung kommt in seinem Bestseller Kapitalismus und Freiheit zum Ausdruck. Darin forderte er die Minimierung der Rolle des Staates, um politische und gesellschaftliche Freiheit zu fördern. In seiner Fernsehserie Free to Choose, die PBS im Jahre 1980 sendete, erklärte Friedman die Funktionsweisen des freien Marktes und unterstrich besonders, dass andere wirtschaftliche Systeme die sozialen und politischen Probleme einer Gesellschaft nicht adäquat lösen könnten.Friedman war Professor an der University of Chicago. Er war Schüler von Frank Knight. Der Rechtswissenschaftler David D. Friedman ist sein Sohn, Patri Friedman sein Enkel. Wikipedia

„Die soziale Verantwortung der Wirtschaft ist es ihre Profite zu vergrößern.“
The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970
Original engl.: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits."
Rede zur Eröffnung des Cato-Institutes http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-mf050693.html, 6. Mai 1993 <br class="br">Original engl.: "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
„Wir haben ein System, das zunehmend Arbeit besteuert und Erwerbslosigkeit bezuschusst.“
U.S. News and World Report, 7. März 1977 <br class="br">Original engl.: "We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork." - p.21 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=LkQvAAAAYAAJ&q=nonwork
PBS Free to Those - The Tyranny of Control
Original engl.: "I'm not pro business, I am pro free enterprise, which is a very different thing."
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X
Original engl.: "With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves."
:(Interview Der Spiegel,30.03.1992 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13682584.html)
“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)
Quelle: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
“Society doesn't have values. People have values.”
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.
Quelle: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50
Milton Friedman buch Free to Choose
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", page 13
Kontext: 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.
As quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) by John Mitchinson, p. 87
"Milton Friedman" in William Breit and Roger W. Spencer (ed.) Lives of the laureates
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X
Milton Friedman buch Free to Choose
Quelle: 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.”
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
Quelle: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Quelle: (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion, 2002 edition, p. 198
Milton Friedman buch Free to Choose
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14
Quelle: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Milton Friedman buch Capitalism and Freedom
Introduction
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Kontext: 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.
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)
Milton Friedman buch Capitalism and Freedom
Quelle: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Milton Friedman buch Capitalism and Freedom
Quelle: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 6 The Role of Government in Education, p. 95
As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
“You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.”
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg