Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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.
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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156334600 (0156334607)
Publish date: November 26th 1990
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Science,
American,
Business,
Economics,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Political Science,
Society
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 Capitalism and Freedom where he argued free markets make for free societies, and the ten-part 1980 P...
The fact that Friedman even considered basic income (or in this case negative income tax) a worthwhile experiment (which bureaucracy of course messed up royally), proves thata) Friedman wasn't the evil, heartless boogey man hippies always want to portray him as, and thatb) the so-called free market ...