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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman

Chicago School of Economics

Born July 31, 1912

Brooklyn, New York

Died November 16, 2006 (aged 94)

San Francisco, California

Nationality American

Institution Hoover Institution (1977–2006)

University of Chicago (1946–77)
Columbia University (1937–41, 1943–45, 1964–65)
NBER (1937–40)

Field Economics

Alma mater Columbia University (Ph.D.), 1946, University of Chicago (M.A.), 1933
Rutgers University (B.A.), (1932)

Opposed John Maynard Keynes, John Kenneth Galbraith, Murray Rothbard

Influences Adam Smith, Irving Fisher, Frank Knight, Murray Rothbard, Jacob Viner, Harold Hotelling, Arthur Burns, Friedrich Hayek,
Homer Jones, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Simons, George Stigler

Influenced David D. Friedman, Anna J. Schwartz, Ben Bernanke, Gary Becker, Thomas Sowell, Harry Markowitz, Chicago Boys, William F.
Buckley, Jr., Cato Institute

Contributions Price theory, Monetarism, applied macroeconomics, floating exchange rates, volunteer military, Permanent income hypothesis,
Friedman test

Awards John Bates Clark Medal (1951)

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1976)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)
National Medal of Science (1988)

Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, academic, and
author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades. He was a recipient of the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Among scholars, he is best known for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis,
monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.[1] He was an
economic advisor to U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Over time, many governments practiced his restatement of a
political philosophy that extolled the virtues of a free market economic system with little intervention by
government. As a leader of the Chicago school of economics, based at the University of Chicago, he had great
influence in determining the research agenda of the entire profession. Milton Friedman's works, which include many
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monographs, books, scholarly articles, papers, magazine columns, television programs, videos, and lectures, cover a
broad range of topics of microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic history, and public policy issues. The
Economist described him as "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of
it."[2]
Friedman was originally a Keynesian, and even late in life said he favored some aspects of the New Deal such as
"providing relief for the unemployed, providing jobs for the unemployed, and motivating the economy to expand...
an expansive monetary policy"; however, he never advocated wage and price controls.[3] His challenges to what he
later called "naive Keynesian" (as opposed to New Keynesian) theory[3] began with his 1950s reinterpretation of the
consumption function. At the University of Chicago, Friedman became the main advocate opposing activist
Keynesian government policies; he has been characterized as "the leader of the first recognized counterrevolution
against Keynesianism",[4] although even in the late-1960s he described his own approach (along with all of
mainstream economics) as still wedded to the "Keynesian language and apparatus" albeit rejecting its "initial"
conclusions.[5] During the 1960s he promoted an alternative macroeconomic policy known as "monetarism". He
theorized there existed a "natural" rate of unemployment, and argued that governments could increase employment
above this rate (e.g., by increasing aggregate demand) only at the risk of causing inflation to accelerate.[6] He argued
that the Phillips Curve was not stable and predicted what would come to be known as stagflation.[7]
In Friedman's claim that monetary policy could have prevented the Great Depression he was in agreement with
Keynes.[8] Though opposed to the existence of the Federal Reserve, Friedman argued that, given that it does exist, a
steady, small expansion of the money supply was the only wise policy, and he warned against efforts by a treasury or
central bank to do otherwise.[9]
Influenced by his close friend George Stigler, Friedman opposed government regulation of many types. He once
stated that his role in eliminating U.S. conscription was his proudest accomplishment, and his support for school
choice led him to found The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Friedman's political philosophy, which he
considered classically liberal and libertarian, emphasized the advantages of free market economics and the
disadvantages of government intervention and regulation, strongly influencing the opinions of American
conservatives and libertarians. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a
volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and education
vouchers.[10] His books and essays were widely read, and his words had both underground and overt influence in
Communist countries.[11] [12] [13] [14]
Most economists during the 1960s rejected Friedman's economic views, but since then they have had an increasing
international influence. Some of his laissez-faire ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and
deregulation were used by governments, especially during the 1980s. A combination of his monetary theory in
regard to credit and Keynes's belief in deficit spending to stimulate growth has influenced economists such as Ben
Bernanke and the Federal Reserve's response to the financial crisis of 2007–10.[15] [16]

Early life
Friedman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to recent Jewish immigrants Jenő Friedman and Sára Landau from
Beregszász in Hungary (now Berehove, part of Ukraine), both of whom worked as dry goods merchants. Shortly
after Milton's birth, the family relocated to Rahway, New Jersey. A talented student, Friedman graduated from
Rahway High School in 1928, just before his 16th birthday.[17]
Friedman graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he specialized in mathematics and initially
intended to become an actuary. During his time at Rutgers, Friedman became influenced by two economics
professors, Arthur F. Burns and Homer Jones, who convinced him that modern economics could help end the Great
Depression. Friedman did graduate work at the University of Chicago, earning an M.A. in 1933. He was strongly
influenced by Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, and Henry Simons. It was at Chicago that Friedman met his future wife,
economist Rose Director. During 1933–34 he had a fellowship at Columbia University, where he studied statistics
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with renowned statistician and economist Harold Hotelling. He was back in Chicago for 1934–35, spending the year
working as a research assistant for Henry Schultz, who was then working on Theory and Measurement of Demand.
That year, Friedman formed what would prove to be lifelong friendships with George Stigler and W. Allen Wallis.

Public service
Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis
to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was "a lifesaver" for many young economists.[18] At this
stage, Friedman said that he and his wife "regarded the job-creation programs such as the WPA, CCC, and PWA
appropriate responses to the critical situation," but not "the price- and wage-fixing measures of the National
Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration."[19] Foreshadowing his later ideas, he
believed price controls interfered with an essential signaling mechanism to help resources be used where they were
most valued. Indeed, Friedman later concluded that all government intervention associated with the New Deal was
"the wrong cure for the wrong disease," arguing that the money supply should simply have been expanded, instead of
contracted.[20] In the publication Monetary History of the United States by Friedman and Anna Schwartz, they argue
that the Great Depression was caused by monetary contraction, which was the consequence of poor policymaking by
the Federal reserve and the continuous crises of the banking system.[21]
During 1935, he began work for the National Resources Committee, which was then working on a large consumer
budget survey. Ideas from this project later became a part of his Theory of the Consumption Function. Friedman
began employment with the National Bureau of Economic Research during autumn 1937 to assist Simon Kuznets in
his work on professional income. This work resulted in their jointly authored publication Incomes from Independent
Professional Practice, which introduced the concepts of permanent and transitory income, a major component of the
Permanent Income Hypothesis that Friedman worked out in greater detail in the 1950s. The book hypothesizes that
professional licensing artificially restricts the supply of services and raises prices.
During 1940, Friedman was appointed an assistant professor teaching Economics at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, but encountered antisemitism in the Economics department and decided to return to
government service.[22] [23] Friedman spent 1941–43 working on wartime tax policy for the Federal Government, as
an advisor to senior officials of the United States Department of the Treasury. As a Treasury spokesman during 1942
he advocated a Keynesian policy of taxation, and during this time he helped to invent the payroll withholding tax
system.[24] He later said in an interview, "I have no apologies for it, but I really wish we hadn't found it necessary
and I wish there were some way of abolishing withholding now."[25] As Friedman grew older he reversed himself;
during 2006 he observed, "You know, it's a mystery as to why people think Roosevelt's policies pulled us out of the
Depression. The problem was that you had unemployed machines and unemployed people. How do you get them
together by forming industrial cartels and keeping prices and wages up?"[26]

Academic career

Early years
During 1943, Friedman joined the Division of War Research at Columbia University (headed by W. Allen Wallis
and Harold Hotelling), where he spent the rest of the war years working as a mathematical statistician, focusing on
problems of weapons design, military tactics, and metallurgical experiments. Then during 1945, Friedman submitted
Incomes from Independent Professional Practice (co-authored with Kuznets and completed during 1940) to
Columbia as his doctoral dissertation. The university awarded him a Ph.D. during 1946. Friedman spent the 1945–46
academic year teaching at the University of Minnesota (where his friend George Stigler was employed). On February
12, 1945, his son, David D. Friedman was born.
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University of Chicago
During 1946, Friedman accepted an offer to teach economic
theory at the University of Chicago (a position opened by
departure of his former professor Jacob Viner to Princeton
University). Friedman would work for the University of Chicago
for the next 30 years. There he helped build an intellectual
community that produced a number of Nobel Prize winners,
known collectively as the Chicago School of Economics.

At that time, Arthur Burns, who was then the head of the National
Bureau of Economic Research, asked Friedman to rejoin the
Bureau's staff. He accepted the invitation, and assumed University of Chicago
responsibility for the Bureau's inquiry into the role of money in the
business cycle. As a result, he initiated the "Workshop in Money and Banking" (the "Chicago Workshop"), which
promoted a revival of monetary studies. During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with
Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book
co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960.

Friedman spent the 1954–55 academic year as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge. At the time, the Cambridge economics faculty was divided into a Keynesian majority (including Joan
Robinson and Richard Kahn) and an anti-Keynesian minority (headed by Dennis Robertson). Friedman speculates
that he was invited to the fellowship because his views were unacceptable to both of the Cambridge factions. Later
his weekly columns for Newsweek magazine (1966–84) were well read and increasingly influential among political
and business people.[27]
Friedman was an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater during 1964.

Nobel memorial prize and retirement

In 1976 Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his achievements in the fields of consumption
analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy."[1] During
the banquet speech he made a reference to “the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”. In that he
was the first recipient to do so, and it wasn’t until 2006 that a recipient of the prize called it by its proper name.[28]
During 1977, at age 65, Friedman retired from the University of Chicago after teaching there for 30 years. He and his
wife moved to San Francisco. From 1977 on, he was affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
During the same year, Friedman was approached by the Free To Choose Network [29] and asked to create a television
program presenting his economic and social philosophy. The Friedmans worked on this project for the next three
years, and during 1980, the ten-part series, titled Free to Choose, was broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS). The companion book to the series (co-authored by Milton and his wife, Rose Friedman), also titled Free To
Choose, was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1980 and has since been translated into 14 foreign languages.
Friedman served as an unofficial adviser to Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign, and then served
on the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board for the rest of the Reagan Administration. During 1988, he
received the National Medal of Science and Reagan honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Milton
Friedman is known now as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.[30] [31] Throughout the 1980s
and 1990s, Friedman continued to write editorials and appear on television. He made several visits to Eastern Europe
and to China, where he also advised governments.
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Scholarly contributions

Economics
Friedman was best known for reviving interest in the money supply as a determinant of the nominal value of output,
that is, the quantity theory of money. Monetarism is the set of views associated with modern quantity theory. Its
origins can be traced back to the 16th-century School of Salamanca or even further but Friedman's contribution is
largely responsible for its modern popularization. He co-authored, with Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the
United States (1963), which was an examination of the role of the money supply and economic activity in U.S.
history. A striking conclusion of their research was one regarding the role of money supply fluctuations as
contributing to economic fluctuations. Several regression studies with David Meiselman during the 1960s suggested
the primacy of the money supply over investment and government spending in determining consumption and output.
These challenged a prevailing but largely untested view on their relative importance. Friedman's empirical research
and some theory supported the conclusion that the short-run effect of a change of the money supply was primarily on
output but that the longer-run effect was primarily on the price level.
Friedman was the main proponent of the monetarist school of economics. He maintained that there is a close and
stable association between price inflation and the money supply, mainly that price inflation should be regulated with
monetary deflation and price deflation with monetary inflation. He famously quipped that price deflation can be
fought by "dropping money out of a helicopter.""[32]
Friedman's arguments were designed to counter popular claims that price inflation at the time was the result of
increases in the price of oil, or increases in wages: as he wrote,
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
—Milton Friedman, Wincott Memorial Lecture, London, September 16, 1970[33]
Friedman rejected the use of fiscal policy as a tool of demand management; and he held that the government's role in
the guidance of the economy should be restricted severely. Friedman wrote extensively on the Great Depression,
which he termed the Great Contraction, arguing that it had been caused by an ordinary financial shock whose
duration and seriousness were greatly increased by the subsequent contraction of the money supply caused by the
misguided policies of the directors of the Federal Reserve.
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although
perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it
presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression
being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.
—Milton Friedman, Two Lucky People, 233
Friedman also argued for the cessation of government intervention in currency markets, thereby spawning an
enormous literature on the subject, as well as promoting the practice of freely floating exchange rates. His close
friend George Stigler explained, "As is customary in science, he did not win a full victory, in part because research
was directed along different lines by the theory of rational expectations, a newer approach developed by Robert
Lucas, also at the University of Chicago."[34]
Friedman was also known for his work on the consumption function, the permanent income hypothesis (1957),
which Friedman himself referred to as his best scientific work.[35] This work contended that rational consumers
would spend a proportional amount of what they perceived to be their permanent income. Windfall gains would
mostly be saved. Tax reductions likewise, as rational consumers would predict that taxes would have to increase later
to balance public finances. Other important contributions include his critique of the Phillips curve and the concept of
the natural rate of unemployment (1968). This critique associated his name, together with that of Edmund Phelps,
with the insight that a government that brings about greater inflation cannot permanently reduce unemployment by
doing so. Unemployment may be temporarily lower, if the inflation is a surprise, but in the long run unemployment
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will be determined by the frictions and imperfections of the labor market.

Friedman's essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953) provided the epistemological pattern for his own
subsequent research and to a degree that of the Chicago School of Economics. There he argued that economics as
science should be free of value judgments for it to be objective. Moreover, a useful economic theory should be
judged not by its descriptive realism but by its simplicity and fruitfulness as an engine of prediction.

Statistics
One of his most famous contributions to statistics is sequential sampling. "Friedman did statistical work at the
Division of War Research at Columbia. He and his colleagues came up with a sampling technique, known as
sequential sampling, which became, in the words of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 'the standard
analysis of quality control inspection.' The dictionary adds: 'Like many of Friedman’s contributions, in retrospect it
seems remarkably simple and obvious to apply basic economic ideas to quality control; that however is a measure of
his genius.'"[36]

Other work
Friedman was an important member of the team during World War II that developed a new proximity fuse for
anti-aircraft projectiles, which prevented shells from exploding unless they were near the object they are meant to
destroy.[36]

Public policy positions

Federal reserve
Friedman believed that if the money supply was to be centrally controlled (as by the Federal Reserve) that the
preferable way to do it would be with a mechanical system that would keep the quantity of money increasing at a
steady rate. However, instead of government involvement at all, he was open to a "real," non-government, gold
standard where money is produced by the private market: "A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with
[classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development." He did
however add this caveat, "Let me emphasize that this note is not a plea for a return to a gold standard.... I regard a
return to a gold standard as neither desirable nor feasible—with the one exception that it might become feasible if the
doomsday predictions of hyperinflation under our present system should prove correct."[37] He said the reason that it
was not feasible was because "there is essentially no government in the world that is willing to surrender control over
its domestic monetary policy," however it could be done if "you could re-establish a world in which government's
budget accounted for 10 percent of the national income, in which laissez-faire reigned, in which governments did not
interfere with economic activities and in which full employment policies had been relegated to the dustbin..."[37]
He was critical of the Federal Reserve's influence on the economics profession. In a 1993 letter to University of
Texas economics professor and former House Banking Committee investigator Robert Auerbach, Friedman wrote:
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you
say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of
the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had
a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial
technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results.[38]
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School choice
In his 1955 article "The Role of Government in Education" Friedman proposed supplementing publicly operated
schools with privately run but publicly funded schools through a system of school vouchers.[39] Reforms similar to
those proposed in the article were implemented in, for example, Chile in 1981 and Sweden in 1992.[40] In 1996
Friedman, together with his wife, founded the The Foundation for Educational Choice to advocate school choice and
vouchers.

Conscription
Milton Friedman was a major proponent of a volunteer military, stating that the draft was "inconsistent with a free
society."[41] [42] In Capitalism and Freedom, he argued that conscription is inequitable and arbitrary, preventing
young men to shape their lives as they see fit.[43] During the Nixon administration he headed the committee to
research a conversion to paid/volunteer armed force. He would later state that his role in eliminating the conscription
in the United States was his proudest accomplishment.[9] Friedman did, however, believe a nation could compel
military training as a reserve in case of war time.[43]

Liberalism and the republican party

He served as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board during 1981. During 1988, he
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. He said that he was a libertarian
philosophically, but a member of the U.S. Republican Party for the sake of "expediency" ("I am a libertarian with a
small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R.' And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not
on principle.") But, he said, "I think the term classical liberal is also equally applicable. I don't really care very much
what I'm called. I'm much more interested in having people thinking about the ideas, rather than the person."[44]

Public goods and monopoly

Friedman was supportive of the state provision of some public goods that private businesses are not considered as
being able to provide. However, he argued that many of the services performed by government could be performed
better by the private sector. Above all, if some public goods are provided by the state, he believed that they should
not be a legal monopoly where private competition is prohibited; for example, he wrote:
There is no way to justify our present public monopoly of the post office. It may be argued that the carrying of
mail is a technical monopoly and that a government monopoly is the least of evils. Along these lines, one
could perhaps justify a government post office, but not the present law, which makes it illegal for anybody else
to carry the mail. If the delivery of mail is a technical monopoly, no one else will be able to succeed in
competition with the government. If it is not, there is no reason why the government should be engaged in it.
The only way to find out is to leave other people free to enter.
—Milton Friedman, Friedman, Milton & Rose D. Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press,
1982, 29
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Welfare
Friedman made newspaper headlines by proposing a negative income tax to replace the existing welfare system, and
then opposing a bill to implement it because the bill merely proposed to supplement the existing system rather than
replace it.

Drugs
Friedman also supported libertarian policies such as legalization of drugs and prostitution.During 2005, Friedman
and more than 500 other economists advocated discussions regarding the economic benefits of the legalization of
marijuana.[45]

Economic freedom
Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute and Friedman hosted a series of conferences from 1986 to 1994. The goal was
to create a clear definition of economic freedom and a method for measuring it. Eventually this resulted in the first
report on worldwide economic freedom, Economic Freedom in the World. This annual report has since provided data
for numerous peer-reviewed studies and has influenced policy in several nations.
Along with sixteen other distinguished economists he opposed the Copyright Term Extension Act and filed an
amicus brief in Eldred v. Ashcroft.[46] He supported the inclusion of the word "no-brainer" in the brief.[47]
Friedman argued for stronger basic legal (constitutional) protection of economic rights and freedoms in order to
further promote industrial-commercial growth and prosperity and buttress democracy and freedom and the rule of
law generally in society.[48]

Honors, recognition, and influence

Friedman allowed the Cato Institute to use his name for its biannual Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
beginning in 2001. A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian
economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young
Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008. His wife Rose, sister of Aaron Director, with whom he initiated
the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, served on the international selection committee. Friedman was
also a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Hong Kong
Friedman once said, "If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Hong Kong."[49] He wrote in 1990 that the Hong
Kong economy was perhaps the best example of a free market economy.[50]
One month before his death, he wrote the article "Hong Kong Wrong – What would Cowperthwaite say?" in the
Wall Street Journal, criticizing Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, for abandoning "positive
noninterventionism."[51] Tsang later said he was merely changing the slogan to "big market, small government,"
where small government is defined as less than 20% of GDP. In a debate between Tsang and Alan Leong, rivals for
the job of Chief Executive, Leong introduced the topic and jokingly accused Tsang of angering Friedman to death.

Chile
During 1975, two years after the military coup that ended the government of Salvador Allende, the economy of Chile
experienced a crisis. Friedman accepted the invitation of a private foundation to visit Chile and speak on principles
of economic freedom. He spent seven days in Chile giving a series of lectures. One of the lectures was entitled "The
Fragility of Freedom," and according to Friedman, "dealt with precisely the threat to freedom from a centralized
military government."[52] Friedman encapsulated his philosophy in a lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile,
saying: "free markets would undermine political centralization and political control."[53]
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Friedman also met with military dictator President Augusto Pinochet during his visit. He never served as an adviser
to the Chilean government, but did write a letter to Pinochet outlining what Friedman considered the two key
economic problems of Chile. The letter listed a series of monetary and fiscal measures deemed a "shock program" to
end hyperinflation and promote a market economy.[54] His letter suggested (among other, more specific
prescriptions) that a brief period of cutting government spending would reduce its fiscal deficit and thus reduce the
rate of increase of the quantity of money in the country that was driving inflation. The economist did however admit
his knowledge of Chile was "too limited to enable [him] to be precise or comprehensive" and that the measures he
outlined were "to be taken as illustrative."[54] Friedman felt that there might be a brief period ("measured in months")
of higher unemployment, followed by recovery once inflation was tamed. His letter also suggested that cutting
spending to reduce the fiscal deficit would result in less transitional unemployment than raising taxes to do so. Later,
Friedman said he believed that market reforms would undermine Pinochet.[55] Chilean graduates of the Chicago
School of Economics and its new local chapters had been appointed to important positions in the new government
soon after the coup, which allowed them to advise Pinochet on economic policies in accord with the School's
economic doctrine.
According to his critics, Friedman did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal
imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.[56] In his 1980 documentary Free to
Choose, he said the following: "Chile is not a politically free system, and I do not condone the system. But the
people there are freer than the people in Communist societies because government plays a smaller role. ... The
conditions of the people in the past few years has been getting better and not worse. They would be still better to get
rid of the junta and to be able to have a free democratic system."[57] [58] In 1984 Friedman proclaimed he has "never
refrained from criticizing the political system in Chile."[52]
Friedman defended his activity in Chile on the grounds that, in his opinion, the adoption of free market policies not
only improved the economic situation of Chile but also contributed to the amelioration of Pinochet's rule and to the
eventual transition to a democratic government during 1990. That idea is included in Capitalism and Freedom, in
which he declared that economic freedom is not only desirable in itself but is also a necessary condition for political
freedom. He stressed that the lectures he gave in Chile were the same lectures he later gave in China and other
socialist states.[59] During the 2000 PBS documentary The Commanding Heights, Friedman continued to argue that
criticism over his role in Chile missed his main contention that freer markets resulted in freer people, and that Chile's
unfree economy had caused the military government. Friedman suggested that the economic liberalization he
advocated caused the end of military rule and a free Chile.[60]

Iceland
Friedman visited Iceland during the autumn of 1984, met with important Icelanders and gave a lecture at the
University of Iceland on the "tyranny of the status quo." He participated in a lively television debate [61] on August
31, 1984 with socialist intellectuals, including Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who later became the president of
Iceland.[62] When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto,
lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been
free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs. What mattered was whether attendees or
non-attendees covered those costs. Friedman thought that it was fairer that only those who attended paid. In this
discussion Friedman also stated that he did not receive any money for delivering that lecture.
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Estonia
Although Friedman never visited Estonia, his book Free to Choose exercised a great influence on that nation's then
32-year-old prime minister, Mart Laar, who has claimed that it was the only book on economics he had read before
taking office. Laar's reforms are often credited with responsibility for transforming Estonia from an impoverished
Soviet Republic to the "Baltic Tiger." A prime element of Laar's program was introduction of the flat tax. Laar won
the 2006 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, awarded by the Cato Institute.[63]

United Kingdom
Milton Friedman influenced the thinking of Alan Walters and Patrick Minford, two of Margaret Thatcher's main
macroeconomic advisers. See the book Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How it Happened and What it Meant,
edited by Subroto Roy & John Clarke, Continuum 2005

Criticism

Keynesian criticism
During the financial crisis of 2007–2010, several Keynesian economists such as James Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz
blamed the free market philosophy of Friedman and the Chicago school for the economic turmoil.[64] In response to
these criticisms, University of Chicago Magazine noted that Chicago's Rajan, Thaler, and Vishney warned the US
government that regulations are needed and, “The Chicago School never said we wanted blind deregulation ... We
should really ask who were the people in 2000 who decided markets don’t need regulating. Those were not Chicago
economists. Some of them were Clinton officials, and some of them are now advising Obama” and noted other
examples to claim that their economists are often mischaracterized regarding their views on deregulation.[65]
After Friedman's death, Keynesian Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, while regarding Friedman as a "great economist
and a great man," criticized him during 2007 by writing that "he slipped all too easily into claiming both that markets
always work and that only markets work. It's extremely hard to find cases in which Friedman acknowledged the
possibility that markets could go wrong, or that government intervention could serve a useful purpose."[66] National
Bureau of Economic Research economist and Friedman's long-time colleague and co-author Anna Schwartz, and
Edward Nelson of the Centre for Economic Policy Research responded that Krugman "doubletalks throughout his
essay," and asked "How can he say Friedman was a great economist and a great man, if he believes Friedman to have
been intellectually dishonest?"[67]

Austrian school criticism

During 1971, libertarian economist Murray Rothbard criticized Friedman's efforts to make the government more
efficient as detrimental to individual liberty. He concluded that "And so, as we examine Milton Friedman’s
credentials to be the leader of free-market economics, we arrive at the chilling conclusion that it is difficult to
consider him a free-market economist at all."[68] Friedman's position on governmental control of money changed
since 1971 when this criticism was made.[69] In a 1995 interview in Reason magazine he said the "difference
between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think I also have to
be willing to discuss changes that are less than ideal so long as they point me in that direction." He said he actually
would "like to abolish the Fed," and points out that when he has written about the Fed it is simply his
recommendations of how it should be run given that it exists.[9]
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Other criticism
In her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, journalist and author Naomi Klein critiqued
Friedman's ideology and the principles that guided the economic restructuring that followed the military coups in
countries such as Chile and Indonesia, drawing analogies between the way that Friedman proposed using the social
"shock" of the coups to create an economic "blank slate" with Ewen Cameron's controversial medical experiments
that used electroshock therapy to create a mental "blank slate" in patients with mental disorders.[70] Based on the
extent to which the application of neoliberal policies has contributed to income disparities and inequality,[71] both
Klein and Noam Chomsky have suggested that the primary role of neoliberalism was as an ideological cover for
capital accumulation by multinational corporations.[72] Chilean economist Orlando Letelier asserted that Pinochet's
dictatorship resorted to repression because of popular opposition to Chicago School policies in Chile.[73]
Klein's critique of Friedman is disputed by economists, including Tyler Cowen and Don Boudreaux.[74] Johan
Norberg, a senior fellow at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, accused Klein of distorting quotations from
Friedman's writings and of "linking him to Augusto Pinochet's brutal military dictatorship in Chile in the 1970s."[13]

Personal life
According to a 2007 article in Commentary magazine, his "parents were moderately observant [Jews], but Friedman,
after an intense burst of childhood piety, rejected religion altogether."[75] He described himself as an agnostic.[76]
Friedman wrote extensively of his life and experiences, especially in 1998 in his memoirs with his wife Rose, titled
Two Lucky People. He died of heart failure at the age of 94 years in San Francisco on November 16, 2006.[77] [78] He
was survived by his wife (who died on August 18, 2009) and their two children, David, who is a philosopher and
anarcho-capitalist economist, and Janet. David's son, Patri Friedman, is the executive director of the Seasteading
Institute.[79]

Notes
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[5] Mark Skousen. The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers (http:/ / books. google. com/
books?id=6sisXMv_AecC& lpg=PA407& dq=friedman we. are. all. keynesians. now& pg=PA407#v=onepage& q=friedman we. are. all.
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[6] Among macroeconomists, the "natural" rate has been increasingly replaced by James Tobin's NAIRU, the non-accelerating inflation rate of
unemployment, which is seen as having fewer normative connotations.
[7] Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman stated that, "In 1968 in one of the decisive intellectual achievements of postwar economics, Friedman not
only showed why the apparent tradeoff embodied in the idea of the Phillips curve was wrong; he also predicted the emergence of combined
inflation and high unemployment...dubbed ‘stagflation.” Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of
Diminished Expectations (1995) p 43 online (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=GcmvijkDrEcC& pg=PA43& lpg=PA43& dq=friedman+
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References
• Bernanke, Ben (2004), Essays on the Great Depression, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691118205
• Friedman, Milton (1999), Two Lucky People: Memoirs, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226264157
• Wood, John Cunningham, and Ronald N. Wood, ed. (1990) Milton Friedman: Critical Assessments, v. 3. Scroll to
chapter-preview links. (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=goa--dQ_eHUC&oi=&dq=)
Routledge.

Further reading
• Friedman, Milton (1948). "A Monetary and Fiscal Framework for Economic Stability," American Economic
Review, 38(3), pp. 245-264. (http://www.hilbertcorporation.com.ar/amonetaryandfiscaleconomicstability.pdf)
Also in Friedman (1953), pp. 133–56.
• Friedman, Milton (1953). Essays in Positive Economics, University of Chicago Press. Chapter- preview links.
(http://books.google.com/books?id=rSGekjfpf4cC&printsec=toc&dq=friedman+essays&lr=&
source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0)
• Friedman, Milton (1959). A Program for Monetary Stability. Fordham University Press. New York. TOC
chapter-preview links. (http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=22831717)
• Friedman, Milton (1963). A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton University Press.
ISBN 0691003548.
• "The Role of Monetary Policy." American Economic Review, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar., 1968), pp. 1–17 JSTOR
(http://www.jstor.org/pss/1831652) presidential address to American Economics Association
• Ebenstein, Lanny (January 23, 2007). Milton Friedman: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403976279.
• Enlow, Robert (September 25, 2006). Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty. Cato
Institute. ISBN 1930865864.
• Friedman, Milton (November 15, 2002). Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press.
ISBN 0226264211.
• Friedman, Milton (November 26, 1990). Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. Harvest Books.
ISBN 0156334607.
• Friedman, Milton (February 1, 2008). Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers. University of Chicago
Press Journals. ISBN 0226263495.

External links
• Works by or about Milton Friedman (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-117948) in libraries (WorldCat
catalog)
• Milton Friedman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295313/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Appearances (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/miltonfriedman) on C-SPAN
• Milton Friedman (http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/160) on Charlie Rose
• Milton Friedman (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/milton_friedman/) collected
news and commentary at The New York Times
• The Milton Friedman papers (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7t1nb2hx/) at the Hoover
Institution Archives (http://www.hoover.org/hila)
• Selected Bibliography for Milton Friedman (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/econfac/Friedman.
html) at the University of Chicago Library
• Inflation and Unemployment (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1976/friedman-lecture.
html) 1976 lecture at NobelPrize.org
• Profile (http://ideas.repec.org/e/pfr10.html) and Papers (http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pfr10.htm) at
Research Papers in Economics/RePEc
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• Milton Friedman (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Friedman.html) at Econlib

• Milton Friedman (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html),
Commanding Heights, PBS, October 1, 2000, interview, profile and video
• Becker Friedman Institute (http://bfi.uchicago.edu/) at the University of Chicago
• Milton Friedman (http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/) at the Cato Institute
• Free to Choose Network (http://www.ideachannel.com/)
• The Foundation for Educational Choice (http://www.edchoice.org/)
• Milton Fridman (http://www.economictheories.org/2008/08/milton-friedman-histor-theory-biography.html)
at Scarlett
• Milton Friedman:Why Not a Volunteer Army? (http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&
staticfile=show.php?title=2136&chapter=195469&layout=html&
Itemid=27#c_NIR_1360-016_footnote_nt1046), New Individualist Review, Spring 1967
• The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits (http://doc.cat-v.org/economics/
milton_friedman/business_social_responsibility), Milton Friedman, The New York Times Magazine, September
13, 1970
• Interview with Milton Friedman (http://www.dominicstreatfeild.com/2010/11/08/
interview-with-milton-friedman/), Dominic Streatfeild, May 25, 2000, source material for Cocaine: An
Unauthorised Biography
• Milton Friedman vs. The Fed Bailout (http://www.newsweek.com/id/207218) by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek,
July 17, 2009
• Four Deformations of the Apocalypse (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01stockman.
html?_r=2), David Stockman, The New York Times, July 31, 2010
• The Case for Free Trade by Milton and Rose Friedman (http://doc.cat-v.org/economics/milton_friedman/
the_case_for_free_trade)
• How to Cure Inflation : Milton Friedman (http://marcfaberchannel.blogspot.com/2010/12/
how-to-cure-inflation-featuring-milton.html)
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