capitalism and freedom by milton friedman

Friedman-the bestselling Free to Choose and Two Lucky People: Memoirs, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. He has written a number of books, including two with his wife, Rose D. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. First published in 1962, Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom is one of the most. Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophyone in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on. How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy-one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 'hundred most influential books since the war'

Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the hundred most influential books since the war

Capitalism and freedom by milton friedman