The Monetary Theory and Policy of Henry Simons
@article{Friedman1967TheMT, title={The Monetary Theory and Policy of Henry Simons}, author={Milton Friedman}, journal={The Journal of Law and Economics}, year={1967}, volume={10}, pages={1 - 13} }
IT is a great honor for me to give the Henry Simons Lecture. He was my teacher and my friend-and above all, a shaper of my ideas. No man can say precisely whence his beliefs and his values come--but there is no doubt that mine would be very different than they are if I had not had the good fortune to be exposed to Henry Simons. If, in this lecture, I express much disagreement with him, that, too, bespeaks his influence. He taught us that an objective, critical examination of a man's ideas is a…
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