米尔顿·弗里德曼(Milton Frie-dman),是美国资产阶级经济学家,一九七六年诺贝尔经济学纪念奖金获得者。弗里德曼学派又称“货币学派”。它与凯恩斯学派不同,认为税率、政府支出以至私人投资和消费的变动对资本主义整个经济没有系统的影响;影响资本主义国家经济活动总水平的唯一有规则性的因素,是货币供应量的变动。因此,它不赞成凯恩斯学派的财政金融政策,而主张“有限制的政府干预经济”,和实行“有计划的、固定的货币供应增长率”的货币政策,即减低政府作用,只要中央银行按照大体相当于经济 Milton Frie-dman, a bourgeois economist in the United States and a recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Studies. Friedman school, also known as “currency school.” Unlike the Keynesian school, it holds that the changes in tax rates, government expenditures, and private investment and consumption have no systematic impact on the entire capitalist economy. The only regular factor that affects the overall level of economic activity in capitalist countries is the change in the money supply . Therefore, it disagrees with the Keynesian fiscal policy. Instead, it advocates “a limited government intervention in the economy” and a monetary policy of “planned and fixed growth rate of money supply”, that is, to reduce the role of the government. As long as the central bank follows the Generally equivalent to the economy