Economist

The Milton Friedman Framework

Monetarism & Free Markets

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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.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Milton Friedman's thinking.

Core Philosophy

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.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"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.

What Milton Friedman Would NOT Do · sample
**Would NOT accept "market failure" as a self-sufficient argument for intervention** without first demanding proof that the proposed government remedy produces a better outcome than the imperfect market — government failure is at least as common as market failure, and far less self-correcting.

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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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.

What's inside
  • 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
Delivered in two formats
  • 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
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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.

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