Milton Friedman (1912- ) Leader of the market-oriented “Chicago School” of economists Defender of theories based on “unrealistic” assumptions ― a good.

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Milton Friedman (1912- ) Leader of the market-oriented “Chicago School” of economists Defender of theories based on “unrealistic” assumptions ― a good theory “abstracts from reality in a useful way,” and generates strong hypotheses. Won 1976 Nobel prize in economics

The Problems? Inflation Poverty Ineffective Schools Drug Crime and Addiction

Inflation: Analysis “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Milton Friedman, Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money, 1956

Inflation: Solution Maintain slow, steady growth of the stock of money – don’t try to “fine tune” the economy.

Poverty: Analysis “Most of the present welfare programs should never have been enacted. If they had not been, many of the people now dependent on them would have become self-reliant individuals instead of wards of the state.” Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, 1979

Poverty: Solution Replace existing programs with a “negative income tax” – cash benefits that decline slowly as a person earns income, providing a strong incentive to work. Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, 1979

Ineffective Schools: Analysis Public school systems are bureaucratic and monopolistic, so they have little competitive pressure to operate efficiently and provide a high-quality product. Monopoly power reduces the incentive of the individual to act in the public interest.

Ineffective Schools: Solution School Choice Program: Allow families (especially those with children in low- performing schools) to select their own schools in an open “marketplace,” paying with publicly-funded vouchers. Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, 1979

Drug Crime: Analysis Our system of drug laws and controls, like the attempted Prohibition of alcohol, isn’t solving the drug problem, but it is “destroying our poorer neighborhoods in city after city, creating a climate that is destructive to the people who live there.” This is an example of “the philosophical disagreement between Plato's view that it is right for some of us ("philosopher kings") to tell others of us what they must do because it is good for them, and the doctrine of John Stuart Mill that the role of government is simply to prevent people from doing harm to others…” Milton Friedman, “The War We Are Losing,” 1991

Drug Crime: Wrong Solution “We could … eliminate drugs if we were willing to … cut off the hands of a drug offender; if we were willing to impose capital punishment on drug dealers… Those are cures that are clearly worse than the disease.” Milton Friedman, “The War We Are Losing,” 1991

Drug Crime: Friedman’s Solution Decriminalize drug use for people over 18 years old. Drug use would increase, Friedman concedes, unless prevention becomes effective, but associated drug crime and use of dangerous street drugs would decline. Milton Friedman, “The War We Are Losing,” 1991