[Reader-list] The Original Friedman

[Aman Malik]

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8190872&top_story=1

Take your pick!

On 11/18/06, Shivam Vij <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
> I like this one in the Guardian:
> http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_adams/2006/11/post_650.html
> best
> s
>
> On 11/17/06, aasim khan <aasim27 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > The man who advised Pinochet and campaigned for
> > legalisation of marijuana is dead.
> >
> > Many believe he was the man who turned Chicago School
> > into the power capital of the new world.
> >
> > A small obit from The Independent:
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Milton Friedman, free-market economist who inspired
> > Reagan and Thatcher, dies aged 94
> >
> > Milton Friedman, the Nobel-winning monetarist
> > economist who was an intellectual architect of the
> > free-market policies of Republican US presidents, and
> > an adviser to Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime
> > Minister, died yesterday in San Francisco. He was 94.
> >
> > Over half a century, Mr Friedman, the son of Hungarian
> > Jewish immigrants, established himself as arguably the
> > most influential economic thinker of his time. Over
> > that post-war period, "Friedmanism" - the belief that
> > changes in money supply dictate fluctuations in the
> > economy - supplanted Keynesianism as the dominant
> > economic philosophy of the industrial world.
> >
> > Inflation, he believed, was caused by too much money
> > chasing two few goods. Conversely, deflation was the
> > result of too little money in the economy. He argued
> > that the Depression was not a failure of capitalism,
> > but of government, as the monetary authorities in the
> > US and Europe reduced liquidity in the system, thus
> > making a bad situation worse.
> >
> > As Mr Friedman celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002,
> > Ben Bernanke - then a Federal Reserve governor, now
> > chairman of the US central bank - sought belated
> > forgiveness for the error: "Regarding the Great
> > Depression, you're right," Mr Bernanke acknowledged.
> > "We did it. We're very sorry." Those monetary beliefs
> > underpinned the 30-plus books that appeared under his
> > name, most notably perhaps A Monetary History of the
> > United States, 1867-1960, as well as a host of other
> > writing including a regular column in Newsweek
> > magazine. He urged deregulation and individual
> > initiative as the keys to economic success - a view
> > embraced by the US presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan,
> > and by Mrs Thatcher in Britain.
> >
> > Mrs Thatcher said: "Milton Friedman revived the
> > economics of liberty when it had been all but
> > forgotten. He was an intellectual freedom fighter.
> > Never was there a less dismal practitioner of a dismal
> > science. I shall greatly miss my old friend's lucid
> > wisdom and mordant humour."
> >
> > Friedman, and the "Chicago School" of economics he
> > led, helped to bring down the post-war Bretton Woods
> > system of fixed exchange rates, as the dollar was
> > devalued twice in the early 1970s.
> >
> > In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
> > In subsequent years, the Fed and other central banks
> > adopted his prescription of rigorous control of the
> > money supply to stamp out the inflation left by the
> > 1970s oil-shocks.
> >
> > His laissez-faire philosophy extended beyond
> > economics. Mr Friedman was a fierce opponent of the
> > military draft, and called for the decriminalisation
> > of prostitution and drug use. He courted controversy,
> > not least when he and other Chicago School economists
> > advised Augusto Pinochet in Chile, after the overthrow
> > in 1973 of Salvador Allende, the democratically
> > elected president. Mr Friedman defended himself by
> > pointing to the ultimate fall of General Pinochet.
> > "Freer markets lead to free people," he said.
> >
> > "It's hard to think of anyone who's had more of a
> > direct influence on social and economic policy in this
> > generation," Professor Allan H Meltzer of Carnegie
> > Mellon University, who is preparing a two-volume
> > history of the Fed, said yesterday.
> >
> > Milton Friedman, the Nobel-winning monetarist
> > economist who was an intellectual architect of the
> > free-market policies of Republican US presidents, and
> > an adviser to Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime
> > Minister, died yesterday in San Francisco. He was 94.
> >
> > Over half a century, Mr Friedman, the son of Hungarian
> > Jewish immigrants, established himself as arguably the
> > most influential economic thinker of his time. Over
> > that post-war period, "Friedmanism" - the belief that
> > changes in money supply dictate fluctuations in the
> > economy - supplanted Keynesianism as the dominant
> > economic philosophy of the industrial world.
> >
> > Inflation, he believed, was caused by too much money
> > chasing two few goods. Conversely, deflation was the
> > result of too little money in the economy. He argued
> > that the Depression was not a failure of capitalism,
> > but of government, as the monetary authorities in the
> > US and Europe reduced liquidity in the system, thus
> > making a bad situation worse.
> >
> > As Mr Friedman celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002,
> > Ben Bernanke - then a Federal Reserve governor, now
> > chairman of the US central bank - sought belated
> > forgiveness for the error: "Regarding the Great
> > Depression, you're right," Mr Bernanke acknowledged.
> > "We did it. We're very sorry." Those monetary beliefs
> > underpinned the 30-plus books that appeared under his
> > name, most notably perhaps A Monetary History of the
> > United States, 1867-1960, as well as a host of other
> > writing including a regular column in Newsweek
> > magazine. He urged deregulation and individual
> > initiative as the keys to economic success - a view
> > embraced by the US presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan,
> > and by Mrs Thatcher in Britain.
> > Mrs Thatcher said: "Milton Friedman revived the
> > economics of liberty when it had been all but
> > forgotten. He was an intellectual freedom fighter.
> > Never was there a less dismal practitioner of a dismal
> > science. I shall greatly miss my old friend's lucid
> > wisdom and mordant humour."
> >
> > Friedman, and the "Chicago School" of economics he
> > led, helped to bring down the post-war Bretton Woods
> > system of fixed exchange rates, as the dollar was
> > devalued twice in the early 1970s.
> >
> > In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
> > In subsequent years, the Fed and other central banks
> > adopted his prescription of rigorous control of the
> > money supply to stamp out the inflation left by the
> > 1970s oil-shocks.
> >
> > His laissez-faire philosophy extended beyond
> > economics. Mr Friedman was a fierce opponent of the
> > military draft, and called for the decriminalisation
> > of prostitution and drug use. He courted controversy,
> > not least when he and other Chicago School economists
> > advised Augusto Pinochet in Chile, after the overthrow
> > in 1973 of Salvador Allende, the democratically
> > elected president. Mr Friedman defended himself by
> > pointing to the ultimate fall of General Pinochet.
> > "Freer markets lead to free people," he said.
> >
> > "It's hard to think of anyone who's had more of a
> > direct influence on social and economic policy in this
> > generation," Professor Allan H Meltzer of Carnegie
> > Mellon University, who is preparing a two-volume
> > history of the Fed, said yesterday.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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