My favorite living economist celebrates my favorite dead economist. Go to Happy 104th birthday, Milton Friedman to share the festivities and see some great quotes.
Samples:
1. There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program. ...
4. Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking. ...
7. Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. ...
These are just a few teasers. See the whole list to more fully appreciate his genius of articulating brilliant concepts in concise, understandable sentences.
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