United StatesMilton Friedman was an American economist at the University of Chicago who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. A leading advocate of free markets, he promoted monetarism, deregulation, school vouchers and limited government.
In the 12 Axes register, Milton Friedman leans hardest on Planned – Markets: Markets 95%; the register median is Planned 68%.
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Where Milton Friedman sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Federational
Preferred decentralized, local government
Representative Democracy
Supported limited constitutional democracy
Libertarian
Individual liberty as the central value
Non-Interventionist
No strong stance on national identity
Non-Aggressive
Campaigned to end military conscription
Multiculturalist
Opposed discrimination, trusted markets over mandates
Capitalist
Privatization, school vouchers, minimal state
Laissez-Faire
Monetarism and laissez-faire markets
Global Economy
Unilateral free trade
Agnostic
Agnostic
Moderate
Socially liberal, favored drug legalization
Technological
Welcomed innovation through competition
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Planned – Markets
On Planned – Markets, Milton Friedman is at Markets 95%. The register median is Planned 68%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Milton Friedman is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.nobelprize.org
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The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
