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== Notes == <references> <ref name=nr-0> {{cite web |last=Rowe |first=Nick |title=Milton Friedman's Thermostat |website=Worthwhile Canadian Initiative |date=2010-12-22 |url=http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/12/milton-friedmans-thermostat.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528202418/http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/12/milton-friedmans-thermostat.html |archive-date=2014-05-28 |url-status=dead |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Typepad |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=nr> {{cite web |last=Rowe |first=Nick |title=Why are (almost all) economists unaware of Milton Friedman's thermostat? |website=Worthwhile Canadian Initiative |date=2012-07-27 |url=http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/07/why-are-almost-all-economists-unaware-of-milton-friedmans-thermostat.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310085122/http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/07/why-are-almost-all-economists-unaware-of-milton-friedmans-thermostat.html |archive-date=2014-03-10 |url-status=dead |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Typepad |postscript= |quote=Posted by Nick Rowe on July 27, 2012 in Econometrics, Fiscal policy, Macro, Monetary policy. }} </ref> <ref name=mf> {{cite news |last=Friedman |first=Milton |title=The Fed's Thermostat |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=2003-08-19 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106125694925954100 |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Dow Jones & Company |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=nr-aware> {{cite web |last1=Beckworth |first1=David |last2=Rowe |first2=Nick |title=Nick Rowe on Monetary Basics, Milton Friedman’s Thermostat, and More |website=Mercatus Center |series=Macro Musings |date=2016-08-15 |url=https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings/nick-rowe-monetary-basics-milton-friedmans-thermostat-and-more |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=George Mason University |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=blog-br> {{cite web |last=Romanchuk |first=Brian |title=Why The "Friedman Thermostat" Analogy Should Be Uncomfortable For The Mainstream |website=Bond Economics |date=2024-01-22 |url=https://www.bondeconomics.com/2024/01/why-friedman-thermostat-analogy-should.html |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Bond Economics |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=blog-lc> {{cite web |last=Christensen |first=Lars |title=Friedman’s thermostat and why he obviously would support a NGDP target |website=The Market Monetarist |date=2011-11-05 |url=https://marketmonetarist.com/2011/11/05/friedmans-thermostat-and-why-he-obviously-would-support-a-ngdp-target/ |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=The Market Monetarist |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=blog-db> {{cite web |last=Beckworth |first=David |title=Salvaging the Equation of Exchange |website=Macro Musings Blog |date=2010-12-22 |url=https://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2010/12/salvaging-equation-of-exchange.html |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Blogger |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=blog-crs> {{cite web |last=Shalizi |first=Cosma Rohilla |title=Regression, Thermostats, Causal Inference: Some Finger Exercises |website=Three-Toed Sloth |date=2021-03-26 |url=http://bactra.org/weblog/1178.html |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Cosma Rohilla Shalizi |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=blog-msk> {{cite web |last=Kimball |first=Miles Spencer |title=Milton Friedman's Thermostat: An Econometric Cautionary Tale |website=Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal |date=2012-07-28 |url=https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/28198991540/milton-friedmans-thermostat-an-econometric-cautionary-tale |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Miles Spencer Kimball |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=prison-nbc> {{cite news |last1=Hylton |first1=Antonia |last2=Berk |first2=Emily |title=In one of America’s most troubled jails, a mental health unit has managed to thrive |newspaper=NBC News |date=2024-08-28 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/experimental-mental-health-unit-transform-new-orleans-jail-rcna168294 |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=NBCUniversal News Group |language=en }} </ref> <ref name=prison-dn> {{cite news |last1=Goodman |first1=Amy |last2=Sheikh |first2=Nermeen |last3=Sered |first3=Danielle |title=Until We Reckon: Mass Incarceration, Violence & the Radical Possibilities of Restorative Justice |newspaper=Democracy Now! |date=2019-03-14 |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/14/until_we_reckon_mass_incarceration_violence/ |access-date=2025-11-02 |publisher=Democracy Now! Productions |language=en }} </ref> </references> {{#seo:|description=Friedman's Thermostat is a control mechanism that keeps an output constant but is mistakenly believed to be causing the external variation it is controlling}} [[Category:Concepts]]
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