Milton Friedman

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.

Milton Friedman on the State of the Union

Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences grades the achievements of the Clinton administration and evaluates the programs the President proposed in his 1999 State of the Union address. [Hat tip to FinanceProfessor.com]

Editor’s Note: Topical, a bit dated, and US-centric, but considering Friedman’s stature in the world of economics, still worth a view.

Milton Friedman, Frédéric Bastiat

It’s always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else’s expense. That the real problem of our government. Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 3 of 5 – The Failure of Socialism

Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.

This is the third of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by Ronald Reagan … [ Read more ]

PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 2 of 5 – The Tyranny of Control

Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.

This is the second of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by George Schultz … [ Read more ]

PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 1 of 5 – The Power of the Market

Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.

This is the first of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by Arnold Schwarzenegger … [ Read more ]

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Capitalism and Freedom

“Unlike other crusaders from Berkeley in the 60s, I chose Wall Street as my battleground for improving society because that’s where government institutions and industries are financed. One of the most articulate writers who shares that belief is Milton Friedman, who knows that personal and political freedoms are enhanced dramatically when greater numbers of people participate in a market economy.” When this book was first … [ Read more ]