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The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index.
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Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. He has written a number of books, including two with his wife, Rose D. Friedman—the bestselling Free to Choose and Two Lucky People: Memoirs, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Rose D. Friedman has written two books with her husband Milton Friedman, the bestselling "Free to Choose" and "Two Lucky People: Memoirs", the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Rose D. Friedman has written two books with her husband Milton Friedman, the bestselling "Free to Choose" and "Two Lucky People: Memoirs", the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant vision of free markets, as relevant as ever,
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This review is from: Free To Choose: A Personal Statement (Paperback)
Following on from his earlier classic, Capitalism and Freedom, Nobel-prizing winning economist and champion of free markets, Milton Friedman (with Rose Friedman) wrote this brilliant popular yet profound book on real economics. In a time when people are more prone to point the finger at corporations and plead the government to "fix things", Friedman's superb explication of the benefits of truly free markets (which does not include political bribes from Enron) deserves a revisit. Friedman takes on many mistaken ideas about free markets and the need for regulation. Advocates of intervention typically compare an imperfect free market (often a market only partly free but distorted by little-known interventions) to a perfect governmental solution. However, regulators are human too, and lack the disciplining forces of the market. Friedman's penetrating yet immensely readable analysis of a range of issues related to free markets and regulations remains as timely and relevant as ever.
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Great classic of libertarianism with vivid historical examples,
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In this classic book by Milton Friedman exposes the fallacies of the socialist thought that is so widespread in our age. Friedman explains why the simplistic policies of most of today's economists and politicians often produce effects contrary to those intended.Real free market capitalism may not produce an utopia but it constitute the best system ever created to rise the quality of life of the mass so quickly and effectively. As Friedman explain in this book, most problems we have today were cause by the protectionism and socialistic central planning regulations of our governments, not by free market capitalism.
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Excellent-A must read,
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This review is from: Free To Choose: A Personal Statement (Paperback)
An absolutely wonderful book. It should be required reading in all schools. If you're looking for something to upset the socialists and communists in your life, give them this book.
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