Friedman, Milton

Friedman, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1953. 

Some thinkers, such as Professor Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, believe that corporations should be responsible only to the stockholders, and have no other responsibilities except obeying the law of the land. Taking his opinion into consideration, how much should a chemical company do to protect health, safety, and the environment How much is too little or too much, and what is just right ... 

Milton Friedman s approach is closely related to harm reduction, an approach that has also attracted increasing support in recent years. In this approach the focus is not on stopping people from using drugs hut on trying to manage the problem in such a way that the least harm is done hoth to drug users and to society as a whole. 

Milton Friedman and Thomas S. Szasz. On Liberty and Drugs. Washington, D.C. ... 

In the late 1940s, University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman was installed as President of the Gold Seal Liquor Company — the original Capone enterprise. Friedman soon also assumed the presidency of the Illinois Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association — a position from which he no doubt carried out his first experiments in "free market economics." (8)... 

Most academic physicians now champion statist medicine as the embodiment of a higher, altruistic morality. Leon Eisenberg, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard, calls Milton Friedman the high priest of laissez-faire capitalism, as if capitalism were self-evidently sinful, and concludes his plea for socialist medicine with this self-flattering outcry Will we try to save our skins by delivering minimally adequate care on the cheap or will we stand up and be counted in the fight for universal health insurance 39... 

Useful examination of the patterns and motivations of corporate philanthropy. Contrasts two philosophies of corporate philanthropy that espoused by Milton Friedman, "supposedly the headmaster of the give-nothing school," and the view that "the purpose of business is to serve society," sponsored by Lawrence A. Wien and Kenneth N. Dayton. 

When first introduced, the notion of corporate social responsibility faced severe criticism. The most well-known critic of corporate social responsibility was Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who proclaimed in the title of his New York Times Magazine wciicle on September 13,1970, that the social... 

D. Thackrey of Santa Ana, California, for example, anticipated Milton Friedman s critique of social responsibility as a subversive doctrine I don t OWE that largest collective to which I belong, the public, anything, he wrote, and I refuse to feel guilty because some genuine or phoney collectivist thinks I should put his welfare on par with mine. ... 

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom 4 (1962) Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom xliii, 16 (Bruce Caldwell, ed. 2007). 

Epstein, Overdose, 113, 189 Milton Friedman Rose D. Friedman, Free to Choose 203 (1980) Robert Smith, The Occupational Safety and Health Act, Its Goals and Achievements (1976) W. Kip Viscusi, Risk By Choice (1983) Martha T. McCIuskey, Efficiency and Social Citizenship Challenging the Neo-Liberal Attack on the Welfare State, 78 Ind. L. J. 783, 807 (2003) (origins of the concept of moral hazard). 

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