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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122 EAN: 9780151334810 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0151334811 Label: Harcourt Manufacturer: Harcourt Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 338 Publication Date: 1980-01 Publisher: Harcourt Studio: Harcourt Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Free to ChooseThis is an excellent book about the Free Market, and how people are free to choose their own path in life. Milton Freidman was one of the best economic thinkers of our time and will be sorely missed by those who believe in the free market. Friedman discusses how socialist societies eventually fail and the people that are stuck in those societies are not free to choose their own path in life. Capitalism may not be perfect, but it is much better than societies that are run by a centralized ... Read More Rating: - Number 1 book on basic economicsThis is absolutely the best book on basic economic thinking. It is filled with sound logical arguments for free markets. This book should be the starting point for anyone interested in politics and politically economy. Milton Friedman is "way out there" for many, but his debating skills are solid. I used arguments in this book during debates in grad school and easily hammered classmates who couldn't figure out how to argue against the "green pieces of paper" statement when they were ... Read More Rating:  - Willful myopiaDr. Friedman is plainly an educated and articulate man and his arguments have a seductive veneer of logic to them. The tragedy is that his interpretations are extremely selective: he focuses exclusively on what he perceives to be the strengths of the free market, while completely disregarding its costs. In this respect, he shares the mentality of the fundamentalist. Anything that ever goes well, he attributes to the free market; anything that ever goes wrong, he dismisses as either an aberation, a reflection ... Read More Rating: - A Life Changing ExperienceArguably Friedman's magnus opus, Free to Choose is a book that will radically change the reader's way of thinking. Admittedly, before reading this book I would have been proud to vilify the free market. Like so many others, I fell victim to the demagogues. Free to Choose revolutionized my ideas about the role of government, and how intervention is inherently inefficient. Frieman's ideas are undoubtedly controversial, but Friedman himself was no polemicist. He would look down upon today's radio scum, like Rush ... Read More Rating: - EssentialA more essential guide for those of conservative and libertarian leanings I can't think of. Friedman, in his traditionally accessible, though brilliant, way elucidates economics, politics, and freedom in a timeless classic. Would buy again and again. |
