Product Details
ISBN: 9780226264011
Category: Economic Theory & Philosophy
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 1963-02-01
Series: Phoenix Books
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Pages: 214
Dimensions (mm): 206x135x11mm
Weight: 236g
Capitalism And Freedom
In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism--the organization of economic activity through private enterprise operating in a free market--as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. Beginning with a discussion of principles of a liberal society, Friedman applies them to such constantly pressing problems as monetary policy, discrimination, education, income distribution, welfare, and poverty. Milton Friedman is one of the nation's outstanding economists, distinguished for remarkable analytical powers and technical virtuosity. He is unfailingly enlightening, independent, courageous, penetrating, and above all, stimulating. -Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colleagues. It's an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done both. -Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune