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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
from Harvest Books

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Number 1 book on basic economics
  
  This is absolutely the best book on basic economic thinking. It is filled with sound logical arguments for free markets. This book should be the starting point for anyone interested in politics and politically economy.
  Milton Friedman is "way out there" for many, but his debating skills are solid. I used arguments in this book during debates in grad school and easily hammered classmates who couldn't figure out how to argue against the "green pieces of paper" statement when they were arguing on... more info

• Willful myopia
  Dr. Friedman is plainly an educated and articulate man and his arguments have a seductive veneer of logic to them. The tragedy is that his interpretations are extremely selective: he focuses exclusively on what he perceives to be the strengths of the free market, while completely disregarding its costs. In this respect, he shares the mentality of the fundamentalist. Anything that ever goes well, he attributes to the free market; anything that ever goes wrong, he dismisses as either an aberation, a... more info

• A Life Changing Experience
  Arguably Friedman's magnus opus, Free to Choose is a book that will radically change the reader's way of thinking. Admittedly, before reading this book I would have been proud to vilify the free market. Like so many others, I fell victim to the demagogues. Free to Choose revolutionized my ideas about the role of government, and how intervention is inherently inefficient. Frieman's ideas are undoubtedly controversial, but Friedman himself was no polemicist. He would look down upon today's radio scum, like... more info

• Essential
  A more essential guide for those of conservative and libertarian leanings I can't think of.
  Friedman, in his traditionally accessible, though brilliant, way elucidates economics, politics, and freedom in a timeless classic.
  Would buy again and again.

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