Free to Choose
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380607143 (038060714X)
Publish date: October 17th 1980
Publisher: Avon Books
Edition language: English
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Literature,
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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 ...