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With Friedman's framework, we can see how ethics can be seen as arising from the nature of business practice itself. Business involves an ethics in which we consider, work with, and respect strangers ...
In an attempt to explain business cycles, Milton Friedman came up with a plucked-string analogy. Like all Monetarist theories, however, this also had fatal ...
Richard W. Wilcke, An Appropriate Ethical Model for Business and a Critique of Milton Friedman's Thesis, The Independent Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall 2004), pp. 187-209 ...
Milton Friedman was an economist who changed the world. His ideas influenced presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He made famous the University of Chicago economic theory of ...
The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.
How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market Milton Friedman’s siren song of profit convinced lawmakers to stop worrying about people and hand big business limitless power.
Ultimately, the value to investment professionals of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative lies in the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of economic theory by studying its history.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.