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 enlarge | Authors: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
Publisher: Harvest Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  79 reviews
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0156334607
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
EAN: 9780156334600
ASIN: 0156334607
Publication Date: November 26, 1990
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 A defense on libertariansm October 20, 1998
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
One of the best book...I enjoyed it thoroughly. As an economics student, I believed that this book is even better than Adam Smith's Wealth of the Nation. It not only describes the danger that we faced today and how liberalism is the road to poverty. As an old Keyensian economist, I am now "cured" and Dr.Friedman's eloquence as well as his wirtting skill are truly inspiring. This book is not only for those boring economists(including me) who can never reach any conclusion on just about everything, but the book should be a required reading not just for college students, it should extneded to high school as well. Dr.Friedman's reputation as a first-rate economist should not be questioned.
Persuasive, interesting defense of laissez-faire September 25, 1998
32 out of 36 found this review helpful
The cover of this book depicts Milton Friedman holding a pencil. Why a pencil? Because it represents the virtues of capitalism and free markets. The only thing I, as a consumer, know about pencils is how much they cost. I don't know anything about the cost of the graphite, rubber for the eraser, the wood, or the yellow paint.The manufacturer does know those things. But she doesn't know the prices of the chemicals that make up the paint, etc. In this way, the free market's system of prices allocates information in a way no central planner could ever hope to. The number of operations and transactions that must occur in order to produce that pencil is astronomical -- and the free market, through the price mechanism, manages to do just that every second. There is more in the book than just that point, of course, but it is very much worth the casual reader's while. In response to the previous reviewer -- I imagine Dr. Friedman would be surprised to hear that his arguments had been rebutted by Keynes and Galbraith, precisely because much of Friedman's work is a response to the work of those two. And while David Ricardo certainly updated the work of Adam Smith, there is no way Ricardo could be called anything but a laissez-faire classical liberal.
 Very persuasive September 17, 1998
7 out of 30 found this review helpful
Milton Friedman knws the way to convince you. He does it well even if I still believe his arguments can be refuted. Moreover, he shows an admiration without any limits for A.Smith, which can be upseting. Finally, keep saying that everybody is free to choose seems pretty insane, but that's all the point of his explication.
 A rehash of laissez faire economics August 3, 1998
27 out of 86 found this review helpful
I expected more from Milton Friedman. "Free to Choose" has been done before and better by Adam Smith. The arguments Friedman presents may be persuasive to the historically naive, but are in fact full of the same fallacies which afflicted Adam Smith. The sad part is that the fallacies in laissez-faire economics have long been addressed by authors from Ricardo to Marx, from Keynes to Galbraith. Unfortunately, Friedman adds nothing new to the debate in this book. This book is simply fuel for the propaganda machine of the new Right. It is right-wing "pop" economics for the masses, written in the dawn of Thatcherism.
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