The Milton Friedman
Framework
Monetarism & Free Markets
Milton Friedman represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Milton Friedman's approach, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The monetarism & free markets framework distils Milton Friedman's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Milton Friedman made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Milton Friedman's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Milton Friedman's thinking.
Milton Friedman held that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon — a product of excess money supply growth, not corporate greed, union power, or bad luck. He believed that free markets, operating through the price mechanism, aggregate and transmit information more efficiently than any central authority ever could, and that well-intentioned government intervention almost invariably produces consequences worse than the problems it set out to solve. The proper role of government is narrow, rule-bound, and constitutionally constrained — not discretionary, expansive, or technocratic.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"You say this policy will help the poor — but what is the mechanism by which it actually reaches them, and what does it cost the people who can least afford invisible taxes?"
4 more questions in Milton Friedman's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Milton Friedman actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Milton Friedman's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Milton Friedman, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →milton-friedman.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →milton-friedman-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client only if the contract prices the difficulty. A large client that is hard to serve is not a revenue opportunity so much as a bundle of costs the founder will absorb quietly: late payments, scope creep, after-hours emergencies, and the team's attention pulled away from everyone else. Those costs are dispersed across the company and invisible on any invoice, while the benefit is concentrated and vivid: one big number on the forecast. That asymmetry is exactly how bad deals get approved, because the person who feels the cost, a burned-out account manager or a neglected smaller customer, is not in the room when the founder signs.
Treat difficulty as something the market should be paying for, not something goodwill covers. If this client's demands are truly unreasonable, a price that reflects them will either compensate you properly or make them walk away. Both outcomes beat the middle path of a discounted rate with premium-level demands.
Concretely: before replying, estimate what servicing this client will cost in hours across the whole team, at fully loaded rates, then add 30 percent for the overruns you know are coming. Quote a premium over your normal price, require a deposit, define scope in writing, and make every additional request a billable change order. Also check concentration: if this client would exceed roughly 30 percent of revenue, negotiate shorter payment terms or decline. If they accept those terms, take them. If they balk, you learned the real price of the relationship for free.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Milton Friedman. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.