米尔顿不是出生于一个知识分子家庭。他只是在作为一名研究生时,才发现经济学是有待征服的一个帝国。从一开始起,在没有遗传的智力优势的情况下,经济学成了他一生的主要热恋对象。米尔顿生平的这种特征使人联想起另一位伟大的经济学家——大卫·李嘉图(David Richardo)。李嘉图也不是很早就结识经济学的。 米尔顿往往被说成是一位保守的经济学家,但这么说是歪曲。从愿意改变现存的观点、习惯和制度——因为它们不符合他的想象——的意义上说,他是激进的。他对两个广泛领域发生的重大变化起了作用:货币思想以及对自由市场的认识。在改变既有的货币经济学的内容方面,以及在改变中央银行的运作方式方面,他的思想是有影响的。在更广泛的经济和社会组织的领域,他令人心服地主张通过限制政府的作用扩大个人自由,并成功地批驳了 Milton was not born in a family of intellectuals. Only when he was a graduate student did he find that economics was an empire to be conquered. From the very beginning, economics has been the main object of his life in the absence of genetic intelligence. This feature of Milton’s life reminds you of another great economist, David Richardo. Ricardo did not get to know economics very early. Milton is often said to be a conservative economist, but that is a distortion. He is radical in the sense that he is willing to change existing opinions, habits and institutions - because they do not fit his imagination. He has played a major role in two broad areas of change: the idea of ​​money and awareness of the free market. His thinking is influential in changing the content of the existing monetary economics and in changing the way the Central Bank operates. In the broader field of economic and social organization, he persuasively advocated the expansion of individual freedom by limiting the role of government and succeeded in refuting