Introduction This essay is about Milton Friedman theory relevant to political economy. He lived (1912-2006) ‚ was the twentieth century’s most outstanding advocate of free markets ‚ at that time Keynes’s theory was dominating and he challenged that approach ‚ In 1976 he won the Nobel Prize in economics for his achievements in the field of consumption analysis‚ monetary history and theory ‚his theory is to bring inflation under control and restrict growth in the money supply ‚
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monetarism as their economic ideology around which policy was based; namely the United Kingdom under Thatcher and the ‘Reaganomics’ of the United States under president Ronald Reagan. The person who is most associated with this economic perspective is Milton Friedman‚ one of the most influential economists of the 20th century‚ who laid down the foundations and did the most influential work for this field of thinking; working closely with conservative governments that adopted his theories in practice through
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business? Do you have some responsibility to the society and the rest of the world? To answer these questions we are going to look at both sides of the spectrum. At one side of the spectrum we have the free market views of people like the economist Milton Friedman. He has argued that a business not should think about the society and the problems that the society meets. The only social responsibility of a business is to make money and get the highest profit as possible – anything else is theft from the shareholders
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Affairs Although the American economy has been established for many of years‚ government has yet to have a set position when it comes to economic affairs. Many Americans and other economist outside of the country such as John Kenneth Glabraith and Milton Friedman have different views as to how the government should regulate business or if businesses should be regulated at all. Both sides make logical arguments that contribute to a seemingly endless debate involving a majority of the population. John
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Milton Friedman suggests that businesses should only be responsible for making profits. If a business stays within the law‚ it is encouraged to do anything and go to any means necessary to maximize the bottom line. Other aspects such as customer happiness‚ impacts on society should not be its main concern. Porter and Kramer on the other hand suggest that we can create shared values in other words we can create economic value simultaneously by creating societal benefit and vice versa. Theoretically
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Poor people do not have weaker work ethics or lower levels of motivation than wealthier people (Iversen & Farber‚ 1996; Wilson‚ 1997). Although poor people are often stereotyped as lazy‚ 83 percent of children from low-income families have at least one employed parent; close to 60 percent have at least one parent who works full-time and year-round (National Center for Children in Poverty‚ 2004). In fact‚ the severe shortage of living-wage jobs means that many poor adults must work two‚ three
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be dangerous to an economy as seen in many events of the past. On the other hand‚ too much government control can be detrimental to an individuals pride‚ as it renounces principles of freedom. Keynesian economic principles contradicts those of Milton Friedman‚ as he believes that in times of inflation or recession‚ intervention is necessary to preserve stability within society.. Balance is necessary in a economy to avoid fluctuations and increase the prospect of sustainability. Therefore‚ in order
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fighters" generally aligned with Marxist regimes. The Keynesian explanation for the Great Depression came under came under heavy fire in 1963‚ when Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz published A Monetary History of the United States. Free-market economists philosophically opposed to the heavy government interventionism unleashed by Keynesianism‚ Friedman and Schwartz made a compelling argument that the Great Depression had been caused less by a failure of aggregate demand than by a sharp constriction
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the permanent income hypothesis‚ proposed by Milton Friedman in 1957‚ is that people base consumption on what they consider their “normal income”. In doing this‚ they attempts to maintain a fairly constants standard of living even thought their incomes may vary considerably from month to month or from year to year. As a result‚ increase and decrease in income that people see as temporary have little effect on their consumption spending. Friedman asserts that consumption is determined by long
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right now‚ the business model suggests that we pursue profit by any entrepreneurial means and cut costs at any expense. For the most part businesses over the latter half of the twentieth century have based their idea of how to run a company off of Milton Friedman’s theories and classical neo-liberal economic thinking. I am suggesting however‚ that we take a different route for the rest of our time operating under capitalism and free market economics and take a look at other alternatives for the way
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