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Quote from Milton Friedman,


"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that 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."


By:

Milton Friedman (more quotes by Milton Friedman or books by/about Milton Friedman)


(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

Source:

Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Ch. 1 "The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom", 2002 edition, page 15

Categories:

Economics, Free Market, Freedom

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