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Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

Tento preklad čaká na revíziu. Je preklad správne?

„Spoločnosť, ktorá uprednostňuje rovnosť pred slobodou, nezíska ani jedno, ani druhé. Spoločnosť, ktorá uprednostňuje slobodu pred rovnosťou, bude mať dostatok oboch týchto vecí.“

Milton Friedman

„História nám len naznačuje, že kapitalizmus je potrebnou podmienkou politickej slobody. Je zrejmé, že nie je podmienkou postačujúcou. Fašistické Taliansko a fašistické Španielsko, Nemecko v rôznych obdobiach počas posledných sedemdesiatich rokov, Japonsko pred prvou svetovou vojnou a v medzivojnovom období, cárske Rusko v desaťročiach pred prvou svetovou vojnou – to všetko sú spoločnosti, ktoré rozhodne nemožno označiť ako politicky slobodné. No predsa, v každej z nich bolo súkromné podnikanie dominantnou formou ekonomického usporiadanie. Je preto zjavne možné, aby existoval ekonomický systém, ktorý je vo svojich základoch kapitalistický, a politický systém, ktorý nie je slobodný. Dokonca aj v týchto spoločnostiach mali občania omnoho viac slobody než občania moderných totalitných štátoch ako je Rusko alebo nacistické Nemecko, kde je ekonomický totalitarizmus spojený s politickým totalitarizmom. Ešte aj v cárskom Rusku mali niektorí občania za určitých okolností možnosť zmeniť zamestnanie bez potreby súhlasu politickej autority, pretože kapitalizmus a existencia súkromného vlastníctva do istej miery kontrolovali centralizovanú moc štátu.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Fascist Italy and Fascist Spain, Germany at various times in the last seventy years, Japan before World Wars I and II, tzarist Russia in the decades before World War I -- are all societies that cannot conceivably be described as politically free. Yet, in each, private enterprise was the dominant form of economic organization. It is therefore clearly possible to have economic arrangements that are fundamentally capitalist and political arrangements that are not free. Even in those societies, the citizenry had a good deal more freedom than citizens of a modern totalitarian state like Russia or Nazi Germany, in which economic totalitarianism is combined with political totalitarianism. Even in Russia under the Tzars, it was possible for some citizens, under some circumstances, to change their jobs without getting permission from political authority because capitalism and the existence of private property provided some check to the centralized power of the state. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 10.

„Vojna je priateľom štátu. V čase vojny si vláda osobuje moc a robí veci, ktoré by zvyčajne nerobila.“

Milton Friedman

War is a friend of the state. In time of war, government will take powers and do things that it would not ordinarily do. (en)
Friedman vysvetlil prečo je militaristická zahraničná politika Bushovej administratívy hrozbou pre jeho snahy zoštíhľovania štátnej správy.
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: LOCHHEAD, Carolyn. Friedman's 'heresy' hits mainstream / Private Social Security accounts were his idea. http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Friedman-s-heresy-hits-mainstream-Private-2665465.php#page-2 In San Francisco Chronicle. ISSN 1932-8672, 2005-06-05 [cit. 2014-01-09].

„Som agnostik. „Neverím v“ Boha, ale nie som ateista, pretože verím, že tvrdenie „Boh existuje“ nie je možné ani potvrdiť, ani vyvrátiť. Nemyslím si, že Boh nejako súvisí s ekonomikou, ale hodnoty áno.“

Milton Friedman

I am an agnostic. I do not "believe in" God, but I am not an atheist, because I believe the statement, "There is a god" does not admit of being either confirmed or rejected. I do not believe God has anything to do with economics. But values do. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: LOFTON, John. An Exchange: My Correspondence With Milton Friedman About God, Economics, Evolution And “Values”. http://archive.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=736 American View. 2006 [cit. 2014-01-12].

„Obed zadarmo neexistuje.“

Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

Milton Friedman Citáty o ľuďoch

„Jednou z najväčších chýb je posudzovať politiku a programy podľa ich zámerov a nie na základe výsledkov. Všetci vieme, ktorá slávna cesta je vydláždená dobrými úmyslami. Ľudia, ktorí hlásajú ich mäkkým srdcom – sympatizujem s nimi – obdivujem ich mäkké srdcia, ale nanešťastie to zvyčajne postihuje aj ich myseľ, pretože skutočnosťou ostáva, že programy označené ako určené pre chudobných, núdznych, takmer vždy pôsobia opačne než dobré mienené úmysly ich navrhovateľov.“

Milton Friedman

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. We all know a famous road that is paved with good intentions. The people who go around talking about their soft heart — I share their — I admire them for the softness of their heart, but unfortunately, it very often extends to their head as well, because the fact is that the programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: The Open Mind : Living Within Our Means. http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/public-affairs/living-within-our-means/494/ [epizóda televíznej talkshow]. Moderátor Richard D. Heffner. Spojené štáty, 1975. WPIX, 1975-12-07 10:30 EST.

„Dovoľte mi, aby som opäť prizvukoval, že 'neschvaľujem ani neospravedlňujem režimy Čile, Brazílie, Juhoslávie alebo Ruska'. Nemal som nič spoločné s ich vládou. Vrúcne si prajem, aby boli nahradené slobodnou demokratickou spoločnosťou. 'Nepovažujem návštevu žiadneho z nich za súhlas s nimi.' Nepovažujem učenie sa z ich skúseností za nemorálne. Nepovažujem poskytnutie rád ohľadne ekonomickej politiky za nemorálne, keď sú podľa mňa také podmienky, že ekonomický vzostup by prispel ako k blahobytu obyčajných ľudí, tak aj k šanci na posun smerom k politicky slobodnej spoločnosti.“

Milton Friedman

„V našej vysoko technizovanej ekonomike potrebujeme dobre vzdelaných zamestnancov. Ale ešte dôležitejšie je, že druh školského systému mení sociálnu štruktúru spoločnosti. V Spojených štátoch smerujeme k systému dvoch spoločenských vrstiev – jednej, ktorá niečo vlastní a druhej, ktorá nemá nič. Bohatí a chudobní. Ľudia s majetkom a vzdelaním dosahujú relatívne vysoký príjem. Tí, ktorí nemajú nič, sú z veľkej časti aj tými, ktorí nemajú dokončené vzdelanie. A náš súčasný školský systém vedie k tomu, že sa tento rozdiel stále viac zväčšuje a že rastie rozdiel medzi príjmami tých, ktorí sú hore a ktorí sú dole. To je vzhľadom k duchu a blahu spoločnosti nezdravý vývoj.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky

„Hlavný zdroj námietok proti slobodnej ekonomike ozaj spočíva práve v tom, že túto úlohu plní tak dobre. Poskytuje ľuďom to, čo chcú a nie to, o čom si nejaká zvláštna skupina myslí, že by mali chcieť. Za mnohými argumentmi proti slobodnému trhu sa skrýva nedostatok viery v samotnú slobodu.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Indeed, the major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 15.

Milton Friedman citáty a výroky

Tento preklad čaká na revíziu. Je preklad správne?

„Jednou z najväčších chýb je posudzovať politikov a ich program podľa ich zámerov, a nie podľa ich výsledkov.“

Milton Friedman

O chybách

„S úctou k platom učiteľov, hlavný problém nespočíva v tom, že by v priemere boli príliš nízke – v priemere môžu byť tiež príliš vysoké – ale v ich prílišnej uniformite a strnulosti. Zlí učitelia sú značne preplácaní a dobrí učitelia sú značne nedoplácaní. Platové tabuľky majú sklon byť uniformné a určované podstatne viac vekom, získanými titulmi a certifikátmi než zásluhami.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

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 that 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, degress received, and teaching certificates acquired than by merit. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 95.

O veku , vek , O učiteľoch , O problémoch

„'Som za znižovanie daní, za akýchkoľvek okolností a pre akúkoľvek výhovorku, pre akýkoľvek dôvod, kedykoľvek je to možné.' Dôvodom je moje presvedčenie, že veľkým problémom nie sú dane, ale výdavky. Otázkou je: „Ako znížite štátne výdavky?“ Štátne výdavky teraz dosahujú 40 percent národného dôchodku, nerátajúc priame výdavky prostredníctvom regulácií a pod. Pokiaľ zahrniete aj tie, vyjde vám približne polovica. Reálne riziko, ktorému čelíme je že sa toto číslo bude postupne zvyšovať. Jediným efektívnym spôsobom, ako ho udržať dole je obmedziť objem štátnych príjmov. To možno učiniť znížením daní.“

Milton Friedman

otázka , O problémoch

„Kedykoľvek vláda niečo dotuje, tak to môže robiť dvomi spôsobmi: môže subvencovať výrobcov alebo spotrebiteľov. Môže napríklad zaplatiť poľnohospodárom, aby vyrábali potraviny, alebo môže vydávať potravinové známky pre jednotlivých spotrebiteľov, ktorí potom môžu kupovať potraviny lacnejšie. Keď vláda dotuje výrobcov, tak neexistuje hospodárska súťaž, producenti nemajú skutočný dôvod s peniazmi zmysluplne zachádzať. Pokiaľ dotuje spotrebiteľov, potom títo majú záujem svoje peniaze správne využiť.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: MŰHLFENZLOVÁ, Isabell. Milton Friedman: Čím víc je svobody, tím lepší je život. http://hn.ihned.cz/3-18602890-Friedman-500000_d-79 In Hospodářské noviny. ISSN 1213-7693. 2006-06-05 [cit. 2014-01-09]. (Český preklad pôvodného interview pre nemecké noviny Handelsblatt)

O peniazoch

„Od začiatku som bol proti tomu, aby sme išli do Iraku. Myslím, že to bola chyba, z rovnakého dôvodu, že neverím, že Spojené štáty americké by sa mali podieľať na agresii.“

Milton Friedman

As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: VARADARAJAN, Tunku. Rose and Milton Friedman : The Romance of Economics. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB115352827130914276 In The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660, 2006-12-22 [cit. 2014-01-09].

O chybách

„…najchudobnejšie rodiny majú veľký záujem na tom, aby ich deti získali vzdelanie, ktoré im umožní lepší život v iných sociálnych podmienkach.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky

O deťoch , O rodine , O vzdelanie , O živote

„Nič nie je také trvácne ako dočasný vládny program.“

Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

„Nemáme zúfalú potrebu rásť. My máme zúfalú túžbu rásť.“

Milton Friedman

„Dovoľte mi, aby som opäť prizvukoval, že neschvaľujem ani neospravedlňujem režimy Čile, Brazílie, Juhoslávie alebo Ruska.“

Milton Friedman

Nemal som nič spoločné s ich vládou. Vrúcne si prajem, aby boli nahradené slobodnou demokratickou spoločnosťou. Nepovažujem návštevu žiadneho z nich za súhlas s nimi. Nepovažujem učenie sa z ich skúseností za nemorálne. Nepovažujem poskytnutie rád ohľadne ekonomickej politiky za nemorálne, keď sú podľa mňa také podmienky, že ekonomický vzostup by prispel ako k blahobytu obyčajných ľudí, tak aj k šanci na posun smerom k politicky slobodnej spoločnosti.
Let me stress again. I do not approve or condone the regimes in Chile, Brazil, Yugoslavia or Russia. I had nothing to do with their establishment. I would fervently wish their replacement by free democratic societis. I don not regard visiting any of them as an endorsement. I don not regard learning from their experience as immoral. I don not regard giving advice on economic policy as immoral if the conditions seem to me to be such that economic improvement would contribute both to the well-being of the ordinary people and to the chance of movement toward a politically free society. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Two Lucky People (1998)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton – FRIEDMAN, Rose. Two Lucky People : Memoirs. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 660 p. ISBN 0-226-26414-9. p. 596. (odpoveď na list Augusta Pinocheta, 21. apríl 1975)

„Som za znižovanie daní, za akýchkoľvek okolností a pre akúkoľvek výhovorku, pre akýkoľvek dôvod, kedykoľvek je to možné. Dôvodom je moje presvedčenie, že veľkým problémom nie sú dane, ale výdavky. Otázkou je: „Ako znížite štátne výdavky?““

Milton Friedman

Štátne výdavky teraz dosahujú 40 percent národného dôchodku, nerátajúc priame výdavky prostredníctvom regulácií a pod. Pokiaľ zahrniete aj tie, vyjde vám približne polovica. Reálne riziko, ktorému čelíme je že sa toto číslo bude postupne zvyšovať. Jediným efektívnym spôsobom, ako ho udržať dole je obmedziť objem štátnych príjmov. To možno učiniť znížením daní.
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, “How do you hold down government spending?” Government spending now amounts to close to 40% of national income not counting indirect spending through regulation and the like. If you include that, you get up to roughly half. The real danger we face is that number will creep up and up and up. The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: HAWKINS, John. An Interview With Milton Friedman. http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/an-interview-with-milton-friedman-2/. 2003-09-16 [cit. 2014-01-09].

otázka , O problémoch

Milton Friedman: Citáty v angličtine

“It does harm a great many other people, but primarily because it's prohibited. There are an enormous number of innocent victims now. You've got the people whose purses are stolen, who are bashed over the head by people trying to get enough money for their next fix. You've got the people killed in the random drug war. You've got the corruption of the legal establishment. You've got the innocent victims who are taxpayers who have to pay for more and more prisons, and more and more prisoners, and more and more police. You've got the rest of us who don't get decent law enforcement because all the law enforcement officials are busy trying to do the impossible.
And, last, but not least, you've got the people of Colombia and Peru and so on. What business do we have destroying and leading to the killing of thousands of people in Colombia because we cannot enforce our own laws? If we could enforce our laws against drugs, there would be no market for these drugs.”

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America's Drug Forum interview (1991)

“For both long and short periods there is a consistent though not precise relation between the rate of growth of the quantity of money and the rate of growth of nominal income. If the quantity of money grows rapidly, so will nominal income, and conversely. The relation is much closer for long than for short periods”

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Zdroj: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Make politics an avocation, not a vocation.”

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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.”

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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

“As liberals, we take freedom of the individual, or perhaps the family, as our ultimate goal in judging social arrangements. Freedom as a value in this sense has to do with the interrelations among people”

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

“The widespread use of the market reduces the strain on the social fabric by rendering conformity unnecessary with respect to any activities it encompasses. The wider the range of activities covered by the market, the fewer are the issues on which explicitly political decisions are required and hence on which it is necessary to achieve agreement. In turn, the fewer the issues on which agreement is necessary, the greater is the likelihood of getting agreement while maintaining a free society.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 24

“There was nothing in these views to repel a student; or to make Keynes attractive. Keynes had nothing to offer those of us who had sat at the feet of Simons, Mints, Knight, and Viner.”

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Milton Friedman, "Comments on the Critics", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1972)

“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.”

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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.”

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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)

“In the course of General Westmoreland's testimony, he made the statement that he did not want to command an army of mercenaries. I stopped him and said, 'General, would you rather command an army of slaves?' He drew himself up and said, 'I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves.' I replied, 'I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries.' But I went on to say, 'If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general; we are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher.”

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That was the last that we heard from the general about mercenaries.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1998) p. 380.

“I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.”

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As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)

“The business of business is business.”

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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

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The construction of hypotheses is a creative act of inspiration, intuition, invention; its essence is the vision of something new in familiar material. The process must be discussed in psychological, not logical, categories; studied in autobiographies and biographies, not treatises on scientific method; and promoted by maxim and example, not syllogism or theorem.”

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"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)

“The organization of economic activity through voluntary exchange presumes that we have provided, through government, for the maintenance of law and order to prevent coercion of one individual by another, the enforcement of contracts voluntarily entered into, the definition of the meaning of property rights, the interpretation and enforcement of such rights, and the provision of a monetary framework.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 27

“A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man's freedom not interfering with other men's freedom. He believes that this objective requires that power be dispersed. He is suspicious of assigning to government any functions that can be performed through the market, both because this substitutes coercion for voluntary co-operation in the area in question and because, by giving government an increased role, it threatens freedom in other areas.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 39

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

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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.

“Freedom is a tenable objective only for responsible individuals. We do not believe in freedom for madmen or children. The necessity of drawing a line between responsible individuals and others is inescapable, yet it means that there is an essential ambiguity in our ultimate objective of freedom. Paternalism is inescapable for those whom we designate as not responsible.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 33

“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.”

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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 major disadvantage of the proposed negative income tax is its political implications. It establishes a system under which taxes are imposed on some to pay subsidies to others. And presumably, these others have a vote.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty, 2002 edition, p. 194

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals—the technique of the market place.”

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Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, pp. 12-13

“A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, served as a means whereby we could modify property rights and other rules of the economic game, adjudicated disputes about the interpretation of the rules, enforced contracts, promoted competition, provided a monetary framework, engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which supplemented private charity and the private family in protecting the irresponsible, whether madman or child—such a government would clearly have important functions to perform. The consistent liberal is not an anarchist.”

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Milton Friedman

Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 34

“How much attention is paid to agreement between Galbraith and myself in opposing a draft and favoring an all-volunteer armed force, or in opposing tariffs and favoring free trade, or on a host of other issues? What is newsworthy is that Galbraith endorses wage and price controls, while I oppose them.”

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A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“Over the period covered by these data, a drastic change has occurred in the responsibilities undertaken by the state to provide assistance to the aged, unemployed and otherwise dependent. This change has had divergent results on the particular data under discussion. The availability of assistance from the state would clearly tend to reduce the need for private reserves and so to reduce private saving—it is equivalent, in terms of our hypothesis, to a reduction in the variance of transitory components.”

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A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957)

“Although I wish the anarchists luck, since that’s the way we ought to be moving now. But I believe we need government to enforce the rules of the game. By prosecuting anti-trust violations, for instance. We need a government to maintain a system of courts that will uphold contracts and rule on compensation for damages. We need a government to ensure the safety of its citizens–to provide police protection. But government is failing at a lot of these things that it ought to be doing because it’s involved in so many things it shouldn’t be doing.”

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A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.”

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Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg

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

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Milton Friedman

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

“The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”

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From The Tyranny of Control, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 2 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=2