“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

—  Milton Friedman

Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎ (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77

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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006

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