The free-market economist Milton Friedman supported equality-of-opportunity economic egalitarianism.

In 1971, Austrian School libertarian economist Murray Rothbard criticized Friedman's efforts to make the government more efficient as detrimental to individual liberty, concluding "... as we examine Milton Friedman ’ s credentials to be the leader of free-market economics, we arrive at the chilling conclusion that it is difficult to consider him a free-market economist at all.

* 24 July-The government's commitment to privatization plans is confirmed with the naming of ex-journalist and committed free-market economist Arun Shourie as minister for privatization.

As a free-market economist influenced by the ideas of Milton Friedman, Armey favored relatively open immigration and the elimination of barriers to the movement of goods and people across national boundaries.

The North government is bankrupt, thanks to the ( deliberately ) disastrous policies of free-market economist Ottakar Proktor, secretly a serial killer.

Wendy Lee Gramm ( born 1945 ) is an American economist and a distinguished senior scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, a free-market think tank based in Washington D. C. She is also the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm.

Generally, McWilliams is an admirer of the free-market ideas of monetarist school economist Milton Friedman, as " very much the kernel of most mainstream economic thinking these days ", even if Friedman was " not always spot-on ".

When he finally left Newsweek in 1966, the magazine replaced Hazlitt with three university professors: " free-market monetarist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, middle-of-the-roader Henry Wallich of Yale, and Keynesian Paul A. Samuelson of M. I. T.

It was only in the 20th century that the relative sophistication found in Smith ’ s work would be reformulated by economists such as Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, and Milton Friedman ( of the Chicago School of economics of the 1960s and 1970s ), resulting in a recipe for a free-market economy:

Inspired by Wanniski and by the works of free-market economists like Milton Friedman and F. A.

Known as a " Chicago Boy " for his free-market economics modeled on the philosophy of Milton Friedman.

David D. Friedman proposes a form of free-market anarchism where in addition to security being provided by the market, the law itself is produced by the market.

Murray Rothbard and other natural rights theorists hold strongly to the central libertarian non-aggression axiom, while other free-market anarchists such as David D. Friedman utilize consequentialist theories such as utilitarianism.

Friedman said, " Reason Foundation's tolerance, civility, and consistency in defending individual liberty make it a haven for believers in a free society of all shades of opinion ;" and according to The Wall Street Journal, " Of all the nation's conservative or free-market policy groups, it may be the most libertarian among them, the Reason Foundation in Southern California, that ends up having the most direct impact on the actual functioning of government.

He was also instrumental in the founding of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the free-market think tank that inspired Thatcherism.

" The Indian relationship with the Soviet Union, criticized by right-wing groups supporting free-market policies was also seemingly validated.

Maoism can also refer to the egalitarianism that was seen during Mao's era as opposed to the free-market ideology of Deng Xiaoping ; some scholars additionally define personality cults and political sloganeering as " Maoist " practices.

Szasz also argues in favor of a drugs free-market.

The RSS also routinely criticized the government for free-market policies which introduced foreign goods and competition at the expense of ' swadeshi ' industries and products.

In the former Yugoslavia, the successor political parties to the League of Communists in Serbia and Montenegro, the Socialist Party of Serbia and the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro have advocated progression towards a free-market economy but also advocated state economic planning of elements of the economy, maintaining social welfare and have advocated significant state influence in the media.

The university is also home to various research centers and institutes, including the Beacon Hill Institute, a " free-market think-tank ," the Centers for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Restorative Justice, and Women's Health and Human Right, the Poetry Center, Political Research Centers, the R. S.

According to Keynes, the implication of Say's " law " is that a free-market economy is always at what the Keynesian economists call full employment ; see also Walras ' law.

Fischer also had difficulty with the determination of many Liberals, including the Treasurer, Peter Costello, to carry out sweeping free-market reforms, including abolishing tariff protection for rural industries, deregulating petrol prices and other measures seen as harmful by farmers ' organisations.

Many have also argued that Europe's institutions allowed it to expand, that property rights and free-market economics were stronger than elsewhere due to an ideal of freedom peculiar to Europe.

It is also used to disparage the arguments of the proponents of " the virtues of radical free-market economics " or, in Soros ' own words, against the " ideology " which " has put financial capital into the driver's seat.

Prior to the formal foundation of the ASI, Harding was also involved in the production of a series of animated cartoons extolling the virtues of free-market capitalism.

However, this radical left spirit ebbed by the mid-1970s, and in 1980s and 1990s there was a return to certain right-wing, economically conservative ideologies ( spearheaded, among other examples, by Thatcherism in the United Kingdom and Reaganomics in the United States ) and also free-market reforms in China and in Vietnam.

They also argue that Bolivia's example vindicates the bad reputation free-market economics acquired in Chile, as Bolivia's reforms came after a democratic election.

In addition, there is also a commentary on Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister, who celebrated personal achievement and believed in free-market capitalism ( Thatcherism ).

Following Volker ’ s death in 1947, Volker ’ s nephew, Harold W. Luhnow continued the fund ’ s previous mission, but also used the fund to promote and disseminate ideas on free-market economics.

Lacey has also worked for two free-market organizations, the Fraser Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.

His views are described as " Euro-sceptic, free-market and Atlanticist " by Daniel Hannan MEP, who also described Kamiński as " the closest thing to a British Tory outside the Carlton Club.

The Danish Centre for Political Studies, also known as CEPOS, is an independent research institution recognized under the Danish state, which works as a classical liberal / free-market conservative think-tank in Denmark.

Opposition to the New Deal also came from the Old Right, a group of conservative free-market anti-interventionists, originally associated with Midwestern Republicans led by Hoover and Robert A. Taft, the son of former President William Howard Taft.

a true intellectual, who can, before finishing his lunch, discuss how “ The Great Gatsby ” might be written today, switch to a riff on free-market reasons for supporting a value-added tax, reference economic studies that detail the “ self-correcting ” tax distribution in European countries that have applied a VAT, chart from memory the nation ’ s deficit spending patterns since the Great Depression, and all while handling a pretend-I ’ m-interested discussion with a political candidate whose conversation is limited to repeating the phrase, “ It ’ ll be a real dog-fight, in every sense of the word.

* 1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

* Natural resources are best managed by free-market mechanisms in the context of clearly established property rights.

* February 15 – The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

The return to the gold standard is supported by many followers of the Austrian School of Economics, Objectivists, free-market libertarians and, in the United States, by strict constitutionalists largely because they object to the role of the government in issuing fiat currency through central banks.

Directive centralized planning composed of mandatory output requirements and production quotas have been displaced by the free-market mechanism ( for most of the economy ) and directive planning in larger state industries.

Because of this belief in the stability of free-market economies they asserted that active demand management ( e. g. by the means of increasing government spending ) is unnecessary and indeed likely to be harmful.

The Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative group closely involved with the 1970 Selsdon document, began to formulate a new monetarist and free-market policy, initially led by Sir Keith Joseph.

The term was used in British politics ( where it is used in a quite different sense: see One Nation Conservatism ), but was last used in Australian political life to describe a tax reform package by the Labor government of Paul Keating, whose urban-based, Asia-centric, free-market, and pro-affirmative action policies were representative of what One Nation voters were opposing.

Jan Kregel accepts that “ supporters of free-market liberalism ” were correct in describing “ competitive innovations ” of nonbanks as breaking down the “ inefficiencies of a de facto cartel ” established by the 1933 Banking Act, but argues the “ disintegration of the protection ” provided banks was “ as much due to the conscious decisions of regulators and legislators to weaken and suspend the protections of the Act .”

" Equal opportunities " is interpreted as being judged by ability, which is compatible with a free-market economy.

Public Citizen's pro-regulatory stance has been criticized by business groups such as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as by free-market non-profit institutes such as the Cato Institute, among others.

Manley's second term focused on liberalizing Jamaica's economy, with the pursuit of a free-market programme that stood in marked contrast to the interventionist economic policies pursued by Manley's first government.

Of the three, both the free-market approach and public-choice theory contend that the market should be totally free, meaning that any intervention by the government is necessarily bad.

Among the political ideals held by the sans-culottes were popular democracy, social and economic equality, affordable food, rejection of the free-market economy, and vigilance against counter-revolutionaries.

Norton was influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand, and has been associated with a number of groups in the " wise use " or " free-market environmentalist " movement, such as the Property and Environmental Research Center, of which she is a fellow.

However, the party had already feared that a tighter UDF would be dominated by economic centrists, preventing his free-market policies being heard.

The National Assessment was attacked upon publication by the Competitive Enterprise Institute ( CEI ), an industry-funded think tank with an anti-regulatory free-market philosophy and a longstanding history of opposing efforts to address global warming.

Ruthanasia, a portmanteau of " Ruth " and " euthanasia ", is the pejorative name ( typically used by opponents ) given to the period of free-market economic reform conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993.

Its leader, Winston Peters, had left the National Party to form his own party, and opposed many of the free-market reforms implemented by National, and Labour before it.

However, his economic views remained steady, amounting to the high standard of living enjoyed by the country-slowly, Yugoslavia became somewhat closer to a free-market, neatly separated from other Socialist regimes in Eastern Europe ( and marked by a permissive attitude towards seasonal labor of Yugoslav citizens in Western Europe ).