Ideologies / Neoliberal / Milton Friedman
§ The minds · 1912–2006 · United States · Economist
Milton Friedman
Free to choose
Monetarism and markets over the managed state.
Economic+32
SocialistMarket
Governance−6
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+5
TraditionalProgressive
The Chicago-school economist whose monetarism and case for markets over government became the intellectual engine of the late-20th-century neoliberal turn.
social
Liberal on personal freedom — drug legalisation, the volunteer army.
economic
Monetarist champion of free markets, school vouchers and deregulation.
governance
Limited government, but working through democratic institutions.
Notable for
- 'Capitalism and Freedom'
- Nobel Memorial Prize, 1976
- 'Free to Choose' and monetarism
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