Milton Friedman Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Years, Long

  "The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman". Documentary, January 29, 2007.

• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Social Unrest

• I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Law, Minimum Wage

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

• The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

  Milton Friedman

  Wall, Book, Fall

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Iron, Black

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