A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

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Milton Friedman was a 20th-century American economist and statistician. Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination

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