Free to Choose: A Personal Statement | Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement | Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman | Should be required reading for all Americans

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	Free to Choose: A Personal Statement Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman Mariner Books, 1990 - 360 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great book by a great man.

Written by a Nobel Prize winner for the layman with profound insight by one of the truly great economists of our time. Friedman believes in FREEDOM. He shows how the masses benefit from freedom, including the poor and disadvantaged, and how government interference, well-intended though it may be, all too often backfires. He discusses the labor movement, social security, the Federal Reserve, minimum wage, affirmative action, to name a few. Read this with an open mind and it will be one of the most thought provoking books you have ever read. For me, no book has had a greater impact on my thinking.

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Should be required reading for all Americans

Okay, first of all, this is a different kind of book. Although Milton Friedman is known as an economist, he's actually much more than that...his writings weave together ideas on morality, politics, freedom, liberty - and of course, a strong underpinning of economics. But somehow, he manages to do this weaving in a relatively effortless way, so that you see the connection from natural law and economics all the way up. I find his approach markedly different from, say, a Paul Krugman - who seems to start with a preconceived idea of what results he wants to have, and then he tries to connect it to the economics...he (and others like him) always seem to be making convoluted, contorted cases that really don't bear close scrutiny. Milton Friedman, on the other hand, seems able to connect the dots with clarity, and you come away feeling that rather than expressing opinions, he's almost revealing sacred and irrefutable truths.

The book is a close cousin to a 1980's PBS TV series of the same name - also available on DVD (some - but not all - of it is also available on Google Video). The TV series was gripping in its day, although even though much of the content is identical, the book has somewhat of a different and to me, more authoritative "feel". Still, if you like the book, I highly recommend viewing the TV series as well. It was updated in the early 1990s with each section narrated by some big names in entertainment and politics, including Ronald Reagan.

As for the content of the book, it's hard to find fault with any of it, and it remains as applicable today as when it was first written 30 years ago. In that way, it's similar to Adam Smith and others that wrote about some of these same ideals hundreds of years ago, yet they remain eerily relevant, even today. The book speaks about the power of the free market and the tyranny socialism leads to. Pity that our leaders (and fellow Americans) refuse to learn these lessons.

This is one book that should be required reading for all Americans.

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One of My Favorite Books!

This is one of the most important books in the world, and though it isn't as fun as some of my favorite fiction books I put this book at the top of my book list because it is so educational and empowering. This book transformed the way I see America and my life.

Since reading this book I've discovered some other great economists: Don Boudreaux and Russ Roberts. Though Milton Friedman has passed away his spirit lives on in a number of economists and these are two of my favorites.

After you read this book, you may want to read more like it. I've not read found a better book on economics, however I enjoyed listening to Milton Friedman's grandson discuss Seasteading. You can check that out at [...].

To watch the documentary Free to Choose, search on Google video for "free to choose 1980 volume x" where x ranges from 1 - 10.

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Great book

This is a really good book and I recommend it to everyone. It came fast and in great condition

crisis as restorative justice

"FREE TO CHOOSE - BUT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD HAVE TO PAY", This Milton Friedman work asks, could it be concieved in environment of strugle for liberation? But it does like to sound liberal, promising. Just look on justice as restoration of value or direction to actual progress in retrospect. And let me say that in hangover after Vietnam war ideologic blunder the Friedemans filled up certain vacuum - with programisation as" Free to choose", WHAT ?- what they offer as hire purchase for this planet ,and what some innocent fools , most probably your descendants would have to pay .This post Vietnam era discreditation of American "City on hill" in distance ,with personal substitution of imediate trends. Cheered as script by many public actors as president Regan.In economic theory as in in other religious disciplines , man's industry is distorted in to mass cults or worship with accompanied hipes, and I found it grossly misrepresenting common truth. Erecting unreal premise - premise what is passed on , over long period of time as western civilisation flashing Neon - or call it judeo christian tradition. Indeed with so many prophets casting life lines of profit to gulible poors and willing. The prophets with almost identical upbringing and background experience, one has to ask ; What No thorough road or blind alley we find ourself mustered again in? So are those Lehman brothers , Enron , Fanny and May that financial meltdown and succesfull excecution of write offs code named Etheranl freedom - part of that choice, too? Who is that fool who can make Friedman's choice in disregard of little freedom to those others ? Or is it everyday ignorance? Freedom to choose as short term escape from failed reality.Book is writen correct gramatic way , but ideas are conceived some how canny, subversive marketing ,idiots way, without thought for consequence .Non genuine idea of society to get drunk on freedom without identity and purpose for-ever.

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