Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000SKJMMY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 337 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent book….This reviewer has never read a more straightforward and simple statement of the present ills facing our society and what we as citizens in a democracy must do about them." --Chicago Sun Times
Milton Friedman and his wife Rose team up to write a most convincing and readable guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental agencies, laws, and regulations. While a large central government may have good intentions, the results it produces are lamentable. Powerful and persuasive, here is the important analysis of what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.. All who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free-market economy will never question Milton Friedman's Nobel Prize in economics. More than another indictment of government planning and bureaucracy, however, Free to Choose offers several convincing and creative remedies to the world's woes
Still up-to-date Truk Nitnac 35+ years old and still up-to-date. It is interesting to read older Economics books like "Free to Choose" to see how accurate they have been in predicting outcomes of policy. It is easy to write a book with hindsight as we often see today by "experts" blaming this or that well after the fact. . W. R. Green said It's hard to believe that Chicago is in the sorry state that is in now with influences like the Friedman's to use as a model for. I'm a conservative. My college economics professor was a protégé of Milton in Chicago. It's hard to believe that Chicago is in the sorry state that is in now with influences like the Friedman's to use as a model for managing a city. What am I to know, except that this book, and t. It really isn't about greed This book presents a clear, thoughtful, and rational argument for maximizing free choice within the limits largely set by John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (that is, one may not use his or her liberty to harm another).Friedman sets out a strong case that when people are left to pursue their own
Professor, columnist, author, and advisor, he was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in economic sciences.. Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was perhaps the most influential economist of the twentieth century