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=== On Deflation and Central Banking ===
=== On Deflation and Central Banking ===
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."<ref name="ref_1963_p17_1">Milton Friedman, ''A Monetary History of the United States'' (1963), p. 17, Princeton University Press</ref>
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."<ref name="ref_1963_p17_1">Milton Friedman, ''A Monetary History of the United States'' (1963), p. 17, Princeton University Press</ref>
=== On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy ===
=== On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy ===
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."<ref name="ref_1980_p71_1">Milton Friedman, ''Free to Choose'' (1980), p. 71, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich</ref>
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."<ref name="ref_1980_p71_1">Milton Friedman, ''Free to Choose'' (1980), p. 71, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich</ref>
 
=== On Zero Marginal Cost Society ===
 
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."<ref name="ref_1975_1">Milton Friedman, ''There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch'' (1975), p. ix, Open Court</ref>
=== On AI Governance and Regulation ===
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."<ref name="ref_1972_p6_1">Milton Friedman, ''An Economist's Protest'' (1972), p. 6, Thomas Horton & Company</ref>
=== On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy ===
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."<ref name="ref_1975_1">Milton Friedman, ''Interview with Richard Heffner'' (1975), December 7, 1975</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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== Additional Notable Quotes ==
=== On Zero Marginal Cost Society ===
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."<ref name="ref_1975_1">Milton Friedman, ''There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch'' (1975), p. ix, Open Court</ref>
=== On AI Governance and Regulation ===
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."<ref name="ref_1972_p6_1">Milton Friedman, ''An Economist's Protest'' (1972), p. 6, Thomas Horton & Company</ref>
=== On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy ===
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."<ref name="ref_1975_1">Milton Friedman, ''Interview with Richard Heffner'' (1975), December 7, 1975</ref>

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Milton Friedman[edit]

Biography[edit]

American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. A leader of the Chicago School of economics.

School of Thought[edit]

Chicago School

Notable Quotes[edit]

On Deflation and Central Banking[edit]

"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."[1]

On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy[edit]

"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."[2]

On Zero Marginal Cost Society[edit]

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."[3]

On AI Governance and Regulation[edit]

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."[4]

On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy[edit]

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."[3]

References[edit]

  1. Milton Friedman, A Monetary History of the United States (1963), p. 17, Princeton University Press
  2. Milton Friedman, Free to Choose (1980), p. 71, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
  3. 3.0 3.1 Milton Friedman, There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (1975), p. ix, Open Court Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ref_1975_1" defined multiple times with different content
  4. Milton Friedman, An Economist's Protest (1972), p. 6, Thomas Horton & Company