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.
This book is a critical and carefully documented study of the influence of the teachings of economist Milton Friedman on the current administration.
Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people.
Review of Jerome L. Stein, Monetarism. Journal of Political Economy, 87(2), 432–436. Parkin, M. (1986). Review of Patinkin, Essays on and in the Chicago Tradition. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 18(1), 104–116. Parsons, W. (1989) ...
This "rich autobiographical and historical panorama" ("Wall Street Journal") provides a memorable and lively account of the lives of the Friedmans: their involvement with world leaders and many of this century's most important public policy ...
With anecdotes revealing the far-reaching consequences of seemingly minor events—for example, how two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how FDR’s domestic politics helped ...
In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition ...
Joseph A. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse, Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 2, 26, 167, 178; Financial Times, September 17, 1997; Alessandra Stanley, ...
In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom.
In Tyranny of the Status Quo, Milton and Rose Friedman describe a remarkable political phenomenon: the uniform tendency in government to reverse the declared policies of leaders whether left or right.
Price Theory is concerned not with economic problems in the abstract, but with how a particular society solves its economic problems.