Present Books In Favor Of Capitalism and Freedom
| Original Title: | Capitalism and Freedom |
| ISBN: | 0226264211 (ISBN13: 9780226264219) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Milton Friedman
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.94 | 10169 Users | 575 Reviews
Details Containing Books Capitalism and Freedom
| Title | : | Capitalism and Freedom |
| Author | : | Milton Friedman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 40th Anniversary |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | November 15th 2002 by University of Chicago Press (first published January 1st 1962) |
| Categories | : | Economics. Politics. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Business. History. Finance |
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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 million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.
Rating Containing Books Capitalism and Freedom
Ratings: 3.94 From 10169 Users | 575 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Capitalism and Freedom
The best way to describe Milton Friedman's manifesto is that while it has a laudable goal, the spreading of economic freedom to all, the means by which he would achieve them would ultimately do the opposite and leave people in continual poverty. His first chapter on how important economic freedom is is very good, but all of his arguments employ either strongman arguments that can't be reasonably argued against or straw man arguments that are too easy to knock down. Not only that, but his chapterEdit 10/09/16: My opinion on the USSR not being socialist has changed since I wrote this review. My comment about "state tyranny" of the USSR replacing private tyranny has also changed in favor of the Soviet Union (and I'm ashamed for quoting Bakunin). Nonetheless, the criticisms of Friedman's arguments still remain valid. Below is the original review.____________________________________________Milton Friedman presents to us two societies: one in which the state controls the means of production
Audiobook (7 hours) this for yourself before even considering what I think is the atrocious (half read) Atlas Shrugged or condemning Milton and the Chicago school. Most Republicans are only cafeteria Friedmanists at best, which is a truly horrible mix. I'd like to think that I've mentally progressed since I first read most of this formative work for a class sophomore year in college so it was nice to find that it held up so well. That class was taught by my fav professor who would have then and
This book is an interesting case of modern day sophistry where the worse argument is made to appear the better. If one needed proof that much of modern economics is an exercise in ideology and self-interested appeals on behalf of the obscenely wealthy then this book provides ample evidence. The French Revolution was fought under a flag of three colours and for three causes, Liberté, égalité, fraternité Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood. Friedman is only interested in what he refers to as
Friedman is definitely one of the most eloquent economists ever to have ventured into public discourse and also one of the most influential. And his arguments are powerful and almost impossible to argue against without stripping oneself of intellectual integrity. No doubts about that. But the imaginary debating partner cannot help but wonder if staking a claim to the moral high ground in an argument is not exactly the most liberal way of conducting one. Friedman puts a lot of stock into how true
This is a brilliant book with a cold, cold heart. I read it this spring for a course on politics taught by Noam Chomsky and Marvin Waterstone at the University of Arizona. They used it to establish the neoliberal argument for the way the world works, or should work. Needless to say, Chomsky and Waterstones views collided with Friedmans in almost every way.Friedman, who taught at the University of Chicago and won the Nobel Prize for Economics, was an idealist, an advocate for free-market purity.
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