Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Rose D. Friedman

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990 - Business & Economics - 338 pages

In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. The Friedmans also provide remedies for these ills--they tell us what to do in order to expand our freedom and promote prosperity.

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User Review  - dypaloh - LibraryThing

I decided to revisit Free to Choose almost four decades after first reading it because Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism strongly suggested that Milton Friedman, or at ...

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User Review  - LisaMaria_C - LibraryThing

This book published in 1979 by a Nobel-Prize-winning economist and his wife is still relevant (and in print) over 30 years later. The Preface tells us the book had "two parents;" Friedman's 1962 book ...

About the author

MILTON FRIEDMAN (1912-2006), Nobel laureate economist and former presidential adviser, was the author of a number of books, including Capitalism and Freedom and Tyranny of the Status Quo, also written with his wife, Rose Friedman (1910-2009).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement; A Harvest Book
• Authors: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
• ISBN: 0156334607, 9780156334600
• Length: 338 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Business & Economics / Free Enterprise & Capitalism; Political Science / Political Freedom