Capitalism and Freedom

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E C O N O M I C S / P O L IT I C S Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war" How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy-one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a millión copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on. "The economist of the century."-Fortune "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."... Tovább

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E C O N O M I C S / P O L IT I C S Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war" How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy-one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a millión copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on. "The economist of the century."-Fortune "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 only in the past ten or fifteen years that Milton Friedman has been seen for what he is: the most influential living economist since World War II." -Róbert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post MILTON FRIEDMAN (1912-2006) was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobei Prize in economics. He has written a number of books, induding two with his wife, Rose D. Friedman-the bestselling Free to Choose and Two Lucky People: Memoirs, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Vissza