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 enlarge | Authors: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
Publisher: Harvest Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 2835
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
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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 Good, informative book December 11, 2006
This book taught me and showed me a lot of stuff that I didn't know. It also covered some stuff that I did know, and parts of the book took me forever to get through. All in all it's a great book on free market economics and freedom in general. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants more liberty in their life.
 Free to choose November 3, 2006
A pretty decent book and a good read. While I do not agree with all of the topics in the book,(some are a little out of date) there are some very interesting topics, I especially like the piece about the illusion of free third level education and what the authors purpose instead. Overall I see the book as an attack on central government and the vast amounts of money they consume in promoting so called good ideas.
THE BEST GRADUATION GIFT YOU CAN BUY June 14, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
for any kid graduation from a public high school in America today,
The most important economics book of the 20th century June 1, 2006
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Freedman is the best economist of the 20th century, and this book is the most important book of the last 100 years. It is impossible to exaggerate the influence this book has had (it kick-started the free market revolution under Reagan and Thatcher). I re-read it often. I wish all college students read this book, we would have to hear a lot less rubbish, if they did.
 Freedom to choose among consumer goods May 24, 2006
18 out of 166 found this review helpful
As time goes by, I have less and less respect for anything Milton Friedman has to say.
We must all remember that Enron was not a "failure". It was instead the desired Republican result of Friedman's "Structured Finance" - what others would call Organized Crime-style bust-outs and other scams.
And, as such, it was a "catastrophic success" - retirement funds were extorted from Enron's own employere and outrageously manipulated energy prices were extorted from hard-working Americans. And all that cash was shoveled into the pockets of the already rich - the very definition of a "free market" success.
And we should all remember that the freedom to choose among consumer goods is NOT something the Founders considered important enough to enshrine in the Bill of Rights.
It is also important to note, as does Barry Schwartz, in his "The Paradox of Choice", that "constantly being asked to make choices, even about the simplest things, forces us to 'invest time, energy, and no small amount of self-doubt, and dread.' There comes a point, he contends, at which choice becomes debilitating rather than liberating. Did I make the right choice? Can I ever make the right choice?" We normally assume in America that more options ("easy fit" or "relaxed fit"?) will make us happier, but Schwartz shows the opposite is true, arguing that having all these choices actually goes so far as to erode our psychological well-being.
Many of Friedman's "suggestions for reform" are GOP platform line-items that serve the hidden agenda of gutting America's national security interests. This is especially true of his "school voucher" program that will deprive America the Nation of millions of intelligent citizens of the Republic who are qualified to vote based on an understanding of national issues that goes beyond the superficial jingoism doled out at "voucher schools", which are, in reality, nothing more than the segregation academies of the Massive Resisters.
So, as globalization (i.e. transnational corporatism) subsumes democracy, it becomes clear that Friedman is more of an apologist for profiteers and criminals than a major economic thinker.
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