![]() ![]() ![]() Their analysis of what went wrong and how to correct it, so forcefully and clearly expressed in this book, is vital to America's future economic health. This book was highly successful, becoming the best-selling nonfiction book of 1980, and presented their agenda for reform. Milton and Rose Friedman assert our free society is in danger. ![]() If you have ever wondered why you are paying someone else's old-age pension instead of saving for your own old age, why the Federal Reserve doesn't control inflation and recessions as it was set up to do, why some industries and some workers get a better shake than the rest of us, whether equal opportunity for all also has to mean that everyone gets the same income regardless of productivity, this book is for you. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of The Power of the Market, part of volume one of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. And then they tell us what to do if we want to expand our freedom and promote prosperity. Free to Choose (1980) is a great companion to Friedmans ten. They show us how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. In this powerful and persuasive book two distinguished economists, Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, unravel the mysteries of economics for the man or woman in the street (Wall Street or Main Street). ![]()
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