Capitalism and Freedom
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780226264004 (0226264009)
Publish date: December 1st 1962
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Business,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
College,
Sociology,
Political Science
Milton Friedman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist associated with the "Chicago School" of free-market theorists. But it's not so simple to just peg Friedman as this man of the right. For one, he refuses to call himself a conservative. He points out that classically, it was defenders of the market...
When I read it for the first time a few years ago I was completely impressed, but now I don't buy many of the author's ideas, although I do still agree that it could provide some insights on what is happening in post communist countries like mine.
http://pro-libertate.net/node/25
Capitalism + Freedom good. Government intervention bad. Many of the "Great Reforms" backfired.The major flaw of the book, if it can be called a flaw, is that it is filled with information and examples of a world that no longer exists. Good and all, I suppose, but more if the historical nature of the...
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