It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colleagues. It's an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done both." - Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual [...]

I Frihet att välja sammanfattar Milton och Rose Friedman sin syn på människan, staten och ekonomin. genom en resa i tid och rum visar de vilka fantastiska ting människan är kapabel till om hon får frihet över sitt eget liv, men också vilka katastrofer hon kan ställa till med. De förklarar [...]

Argues that free-market forces work better than government controls for achieving real equality and security, protecting consumers and workers, providing education, and avoiding inflation and unemployment.[...]

Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic problem should be solved. The effects of price or rent control on the distribution of income are problems [...]

It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colleagues. It's an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done both." - Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual [...]

Writing in the June 1965 issue of the "Economic Journal", Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: 'The long-awaited "Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scho[...]

What is the exact nature of the consumption function? Can this term be defined so that it will be consistent with empirical evidence and a valid instrument in the hands of future economic researchers and policy makers? In this volume, a distinguished American economist presents a new theory of the c[...]

"The major social problems of the United States--deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care--have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document. The difficult task is understanding why gover[...]

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was one of the most important 20th century advocates of libertarian and conservative ideas in academia and amongst the wider public. He made a critical contribution to the development of the free market and monetarist economics that challenged the dominant interventionist[...]

"The most magnificent collection of libertarian writings ever published" (Laissez Faire Books).
An important collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, "The Libertarian Reader" links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuri[...]

Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulation and welfare have inspired movements, influenced government policies, and changed the course of America's economic history. Now, acclaimed Friedman bio[...]