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Milton Friedman's advice to countries exiting from communism apparently was privatize, privatize, privatize .

The Giants, who have now lost four of their last five matches, are at home to Milton Keynes in their next match on Friday.

The point was nicely summarized by the poet John Milton who wrote, The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Reviving a famous broadside by Milton Friedman back in 1970, Simons argued that a company s only mission is to compete and win. Friedman, too, maintained that anything except making money is a distraction.

Of course, some worried about the collapse of the household savings rate, but few were overly concerned. In one of his last articles, Milton Friedman wrote that savings nowadays took the form of houses.

It was only 30 years later, in the 1960 s, that Keynesian fiscal policy was widely accepted. It was also only in the 1960 s that Milton Friedman clearly formulated the Great Depression s monetary lessons.

In 1970, the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman one of my favorite economists wrote an influential article arguing that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. On that point, I disagree with him.

Milton Friedman, a leading proponent of the profit oriented approach to corporate management, famously declared that the business of business is business. Indeed, from this standpoint, there is no contradiction between profit maximization and the common good.

But the realignment of the rich, developed countries around the monetarist policies promoted by economists like Milton Friedman, which began around 1970, broke with all that. Not long after, the dollar was detached from the gold standard.

From the TED archives The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new.

In the early 1980 s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman. After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

Its members cared little about the verities associated with community or family values. Their best intellectual arguments derived from Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and Robert Nozick, who sought to challenge collectivist theories of society in general and socialism in particular.

In the early 1980 s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman. After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

The analogy popularized by the great monetarist economist Milton Friedman was that the central bank could always deal with deflationary problems by dropping money from a helicopter. But, in the real world, not everyone is underneath the helicopter when it makes the drop.

BERKELEY The global financial crisis has breathed new life into hoary arguments about the euro s imminent demise. Such arguments often invoke Milton Friedman, who warned in 1998 that Europe s commitment to the euro would be tested by the first serious economic downturn.

Faced with the biggest test in its history, the euro is far from steering into disaster, as the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman predicted ten years ago. On the contrary, Europe s Economic and Monetary Union is proving a major asset in these tumultuous times.

Any financially literate fund manager knows that risk and return are positively correlated. Any fund manager who claims to have been deluded by the apparently favorable risk yield characteristics of CMOs or related credit instruments can be accused of having fallen for Milton Friedman s free lunch.

According to Eichengreen, the Great Depression and the Great Recession are related. The inadequate response to our current troubles can be traced to the triumph of the monetarist disciples of Milton Friedman over their Keynesian and Minskyite peers in describing the history of the Great Depression.

Any financially literate fund manager knows that risk and return are positively correlated. Any fund manager who claims to have been deluded by the apparently favorable risk yield characteristics of CMOs or related credit instruments can be accused of having fallen for Milton Friedman s free lunch.

This vindicated criticism by Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps, among others, who had already begun to argue that the Phillips curve represented merely a short term relationship. If people do not expect inflation, the illusion of increased purchasing power can boost employment and output for a relatively short period.

Nearly 400 years ago, in 1644, John Milton published his Areopagitica, an essay denouncing a measure in Parliament for licensing the press that was intended, among other things, to suppress libelous publications. That essay is widely regarded as the start of the worldwide movement for freedom of speech and the press.

Milton Friedman s and Anna Schwartz s A Monetary History of the United States belongs at the top of the list. At the center of their gripping narrative is a chapter on the Great Depression, anchored by an indictment of the US Federal Reserve Board for responding inadequately to the mounting crisis.

Early modern Italian textile workers would find their pay in silver reduced, while their products still commanded a gold price on the international market for luxuries. This is one of the reasons why theorists such as Milton Friedman considered a bimetallic standard inherently more stable than a monometallic (gold based) regime.

Decades ago, when intelligent machines and androids were found in science fiction rather than the real world, Milton Friedman, a champion of free market capitalism, recommended a negative income tax to help the poor without undermining their incentive to work. He proposed a progressive consumption tax as a way to pay for it.

Obama has dramatically increased spending. He would likely continue many of his temporary programs (as Milton Friedman once observed, There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. ) double down on having government pick winners and losers in green energy expand spending on education and infrastructure and substantially reduce defense expenditures.

If nothing works, it will be time to sprinkle the country with what Milton Friedman called helicopter money that is, put purchasing power directly into people s pockets, by giving every household a spending voucher with an expiration date. This would at least keep the economy afloat pending the development of the longer term investment program.

By the 1970 s, the neoclassical general equilibrium school captured Keynesian economics through real sector models that assumed that finance is a veil, thereby becoming blind to financial markets destabilizing effects. Economists like Hyman Minsky, who tried to correct this, were largely ignored as Milton Friedman and others led the profession s push for free markets and minimal government intervention.

It is this relationship between inflation and unemployment that lies at the heart of all controversies about monetary policy and central banking. And almost all modern economic models, including those used by the Fed, are based on the monetarist theory of interest rates pioneered by Milton Friedman in his 1967 presidential address to the American Economic Association.

America s current exchange rate regime is one of floating rates or at least of rates that can float. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, economists like Milton Friedman assumed that a global regime of floating exchange rates would be one in which currency values moved slowly and gradually alongside differences in the economy s inflation and productivity growth rates.

Fast forward 150 years to post World War II America, and to the original Chicago School critique of the New Deal version of social insurance that it created notches that perverted economic incentives. The government, Milton Friedman and others argued, told the poor make more money and we will take away your free housing, food stamps, and income support.

CAMBRIDGE One of the many things I learned from Milton Friedman is that the true cost of government is its spending, not its taxes. To put it another way, spending is financed either by current taxes or through borrowing, and borrowing amounts to future taxes, which have almost the same impact on economic performance as current taxes.

It is to Phelps that we owe the theory of the natural unemployment rate a cornerstone of modern macroeconomic theory and economic policy that Milton Friedman rediscovered a year later, albeit heuristically. Phelps was also responsible for the island parable, which helped explain why monetary policy can have temporary real effects as a result of imperfect information.

It was in the first weeks after the establishment of the ECB in June 1998 that I received a letter by the late Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman, who congratulated me on my appointment as member of the Executive Board which he called an impossible job. He was convinced that monetary union in Europe was doomed to fail.

In different ways, Milton Friedman and I objected, arguing that such a policy would require an ever rising inflation rate. Money wages will lag behind demand, I argued, only as long as the representative firm is deterred from raising wages by the misperception that wages at other firms are already lower than its own a disequilibrium that cannot last.

Buchanan, along with Milton Friedman and many others, correctly pointed out that government failures are as numerous as market failures. So, even in areas like infrastructure or education, it is necessary to compare the benefits and costs of the imperfect fiscal and regulatory policies likely to be implemented by fallible, self interested officials with potentially imperfect market outcomes.

Although he did not win all his intellectual battles, rarely can it be said with as much certainty that a man was great, and that the work that he has left behind will retain enduring influence. I live in a Poland that is now free, and I consider Milton Friedman to be one of the main intellectual architects of our liberty.

BERKELEY Harvard professor Dani Rodrik perhaps the finest political economist of my generation recently reported on his blog that a colleague has been declaring the past three decades the Age of Milton Friedman. According to this view, the coming to power of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping led to an enormous upward leap in human liberty and prosperity.

Milton Friedman predicted the single currency would fall apart after a decade or two this has now become more likely than not. After all, Schauble knows that the conditions he proposes would be politically unacceptable, so he says that any country unable to meet them should, as a last resort, exit the monetary union, while being able to remain a member of the EU.

Now, when we tried to challenge this, going to the Supreme Court, getting the Supreme Court, the bunch of conservatives there if we could get them to wake up to this to strike it down, we had the assistance of Nobel Prize winners including this right wing Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman, who said he would join our brief only if the word no brainer was in the brief somewhere.

The problem is not that governments are unsure about what to do. The standard checklist of what to do in a financial crisis to avoid a deep and prolonged depression has been gradually worked out over two centuries by Bank of England Governor Cornelius Buller in 1825 by the Victorian era editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot and by the economists Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, among many others.

BERKELEY At the end of 2008, as the financial crisis hit with full force, the countries of the world divided into two groups those whose leaders decided to muddle through, and China. Only the Chinese took seriously Milton Friedman s and John Maynard Keynes s argument that, when faced with the possibility of a depression, the first thing to do is use the government to intervene strategically in product and financial markets to maintain the flow of aggregate demand.