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Milton Friedman byl americký ekonom, nositel Nobelovy ceny za ekonomii.

✵ 31. červenec 1912 – 16. listopad 2006
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Milton Friedman nejznámější citáty

„S úctou k platům učitelů, hlavním problém nespočívá v tom, že jsou v průměru příliš nízké – ve skutečnosti mohou být v průměru klidně i příliš vysoké – ale že jsou příliš jednotné a svazující. Špatní učitelé jsou značně přepláceni a dobří učitelé jsou značně nedoceněni. Platové tabulky mají sklon sjednocovat a řídit se věkem, dosaženými akademickými tituly a získanými osvědčeními spíš než skutečným přínosem.“

Originál: (en) With respect to teachers' salaries, the major problem is not that they are too low on the average – they may well be too high on the average – but they are too uniform and rigid. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority, degrees recieved, and teaching certificates acquired than by merit.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 95]

„Existují čtyři způsoby jak utratit peníze. Můžete utratit své vlastní peníze sám pro sebe. Pak si dáváte dobrý pozor, co děláte, a snažíte se dostat co nejvíc. Potom můžete utratit své peníze pro někoho jiného. Například někomu koupím dárek k narozeninám, přitom se příliš nestarám o obsah, ale dávám pozor na na cenu. Také mohu utrácet cizí peníze pro sebe, to si zaručeně dopřeji dobrý oběd. A konečně, mohu utrácet cizí peníze pro někoho cizího. Pak je mi jedno za kolik a co vlastně dostanu. A to dělá vláda.“

Originál: (en) There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.
Zdroj: [Asman, David, Minding Other People's Business, FoxNews.com, 2014-06-29, 2007-02-03, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/02/03/minding-other-people-business/]

„Historie nás přesvědčuje, že kapitalismus je nutnou podmínkou pro politickou svobodu. Zřetelně to není postačující podmínka.“

Originál: (en) History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 10]

Milton Friedman citáty a výroky

„Myslím, že vládní řešení problému je obvykle stejně špatné jako problém samotný a často jej ještě zhoršuje.“

Originál: (en) I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, An Economist's Protest, Second Edition, 1975, 6]

„Ekonomie jako pozitivní věda je tělem zkusmo přijatých zevšeobecnění o ekonomických jevech, která mohou být používána pro předvídání následků změn okolností.“

Originál: (en) Economics as a positive science is a body of tentatively accepted generalizations about economic phenomena that can be used to predict the consequences of changes in circumstances.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, The Methodology of Positive Economics, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966, https://web.archive.org/web/20081118134352/http://mikael.cozic.free.fr/friedman53%28extraits%29.pdf, 39]

Milton Friedman: Citáty anglicky

“Make politics an avocation, not a vocation.”

As quoted in “Milton Friedman: A Tribute” https://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2006/11/20/milton-friedman-a-tribute/, David R. Henderson, antiwar.com, (Nov. 20, 2006), told to Henderson (May, 1970)

“There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.”

From Who protects the consumer?, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 7 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=7

“Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.”

Speaking at a meeting of the American Economic Association, as quoted by Walter Block in "Milton Friedman RIP" in Mises Daily (16 November 2006) http://mises.org/story/2393

“The contraction from 1929 to 1933 was by far the most severe business-cycle contraction during the near-century of U. S. history we cover and it may well have been the most severe in the whole of U. S. history.”

Milton Friedman kniha A Monetary History of the United States

"The Great Contraction, 1929-1933" (1963), with Anna J. Schwartz
A Monetary History of the United States (1963)

“The business of business is business.”

Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed

“There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.”

Interview (10 February 1999) in the video production Take It To The Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_qwo2VIlU.

“Whether it is in the slums of New Delhi or in the affluence of Las Vegas, it simply isn't fair that there should be any losers. Life is unfair — there is nothing fair about one man being born blind and another man being born with sight. There is nothing fair about one man being born of a wealthy parent and one of an impecunious parent. There is nothing fair about Muhammad Ali having been born with a skill that enables him to make millions of dollars one night. There is nothing fair about Marlene Dietrich having great legs that we all want to watch. There is nothing fair about any of that. But on the other hand, don't you think a lot of people who like to look at Marlene Dietrich's legs benefited from nature's unfairness in producing a Marlene Dietrich. What kind of a world would it be if everybody was an absolute identical duplicate of anybody else. You might as well destroy the whole world and just keep one specimen left for a museum. In the same way, it's unfair that Muhammad Ali should be a great fighter and should be able to earn millions. But would it not be even more unfair to the people who like to watch him if you said that in the pursuit of some abstract idea of equality we're not going to let Muhammad Ali get more for one nights fight than the lowest man on the totem pole can get for a days unskilled work on the docks. You can do that but the result of that would be to deny people the opportunity to watch Muhammad Ali. I doubt very much he would be willing to subject himself to the kind of fights he's gone through if he were to get the pay of an unskilled docker.”

From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.

“The basic problem of social organization is how to co-ordinate the economic activities of large numbers of people.”

Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12

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