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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> | |||
=== 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> | |||
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=== On Zero Marginal Cost Society === | === 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 === | === 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 === | === 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
Biography
American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. A leader of the Chicago School of economics.
School of Thought
Chicago School
Notable Quotes
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."[1]
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."[2]
References
Additional Notable Quotes
On Zero Marginal Cost Society
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."[1]
On AI Governance and Regulation
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."[2]
On Economic Measurement in Digital Economy
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."[1]