Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary EditionUniversity of Chicago Press, 2002 M11 15 - 208 pages 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. |
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Page vii
... able to curb Leviathan , though not to cut it down . Total government spending in the United States did decline slightly , from 39 per- cent of national income in 1982 to 36 percent in 2000 , but that was almost all due to a reduction ...
... able to curb Leviathan , though not to cut it down . Total government spending in the United States did decline slightly , from 39 per- cent of national income in 1982 to 36 percent in 2000 , but that was almost all due to a reduction ...
Page ix
... able to evaluate his own work forty years after it first ap- peared . I appreciate very much having the chance to do so . I am enormously gratified by how well the book has withstood time and how pertinent it remains to today's problems ...
... able to evaluate his own work forty years after it first ap- peared . I appreciate very much having the chance to do so . I am enormously gratified by how well the book has withstood time and how pertinent it remains to today's problems ...
Page xiv
... able until the politically impossible becomes politically in- evitable . A personal story will perhaps make my point . Sometime in the late 1960s I engaged in a debate at the University of Wisconsin with Leon Keyserling , an ...
... able until the politically impossible becomes politically in- evitable . A personal story will perhaps make my point . Sometime in the late 1960s I engaged in a debate at the University of Wisconsin with Leon Keyserling , an ...
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Contents
THE RELATION BETWEEN ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND POLITICAL FREEDOM | 7 |
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN A FREE SOCIETY | 22 |
THE CONTROL OF MONEY | 37 |
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL AND TRADE ARRANGEMENTS | 56 |
FISCAL POLICY | 75 |
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION | 85 |
CAPITALISM AND DISCRIMINATION | 108 |
MONOPOLY AND THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS AND LABOR | 119 |
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