Saturday, June 06, 2020

When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around

--- Milton Friedman (2009) Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition, p.14, University of Chicago Press 

Quote according to AZquotes:

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.