Free To Choose: A Personal StatementINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today's brightest economist. In this classic discussion, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. This important analysis reveals what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish. |
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User Review - dypaloh - LibraryThingI 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 ... Read full review
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User Review - LisaMaria_C - LibraryThingThis 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 ... Read full review
Contents
2 The Tyranny of Controls | |
3 The Anatomy of Crisis | |
4 Cradle to Grave | |
5 Created Equal | |
6 Whats Wrong with Our Schools? | |
7 Who Protects the Consumer? | |
8 Who Protects the Worker? | |
9 The Cure for Inflation | |
10 The Tide Is Turning | |
Back Matter | |
Back Cover | |
Spine | |
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| Title | Free To Choose: A Personal Statement |
| Authors | Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman |
| Publisher | HarperCollins, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0547539754, 9780547539751 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / Theory Business & Economics / Free Enterprise & Capitalism Philosophy / Political |
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