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."
„Wir haben ein System, das zunehmend Arbeit besteuert und Erwerbslosigkeit bezuschusst.“
U.S. News and World Report, 7. März 1977
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."
Rede zur Eröffnung des Cato-Institutes http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-mf050693.html, 6. Mai 1993
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."
:(Interview Der Spiegel,30.03.1992 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13682584.html)
“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”
"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin
"An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" in The Wall Street Journal (7 September 1989)
Interview "Milton Friedman Responds" in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14
Article "We Have Socialism, Q.E.D." http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006/11-25_Friedman_MGR.php?uid=2075 in The New York Times (31 December 1989)
Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker(ed.), Reflection on the Great Depression (2002)
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15
Quelle: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty
Quelle: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Quelle: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 25
As quoted in Opinion Journal (22 July 2006) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008690
Interview with Brian Lamb, In Depth Book TV (2000)
As quoted in "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/ (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, Commentary
from an interview with Phil Donahue (1979): partial transcript http://www.slobodaiprosperitet.tv/en/node/847 from SiP TV ; or find link to full interview in the External links Section
Quelle: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.”
As quoted in "Milton Friedman's Last Lunch" at Forbes.com (11 December 2006)
“Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.”
Frequently misattributed to Milton Friedman based on a monologue from the 2005 movie Syriana
Misattributed
“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”
Quelle: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50-51
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 10 “The Tide Is Turning”, p. 314
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 8 "Who Protects the Workers?", p. 246
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 6 “What’s Wrong with Our Schools”, p. 170
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 2 “The Tyranny of Controls”, pp. 40-41
Quelle: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 “The Power of the Market”, p. 24
“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”
“Introduction”, p. 3
Free to Choose (1980)
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
