Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war".
In Capitalism and Freedom he argued for a negative income tax, or guaranteed income, to supersede centralized, bureaucratized social welfare services, which in his view are inimical to the traditional values of individualism and useful work" (Britannica). "Friedman, a laissez-faire economist and professor at the University of Chicago, is considered one of the leading modern exponents of liberalism in the 19th-century European sense. Anderson with best wishes, Milton Friedman Sept 4, 1981." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear, small name to the front free endpaper. With an autograph note laid in which reads, "For Michael H. Capitalism and Freedom was selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war." It also placed tenth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century compiled by National Review and on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.įirst edition of Friedman's magnum opus.
Milton Friedman "is regarded a giant within the economics profession, and is one of the two or three most referenced and revered economics figures in the 20th century" (Pressman, 161). The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. Milton's philosophy of economic and individual freedom. First edition of Friedman's magnum opus where he provides his first and definitive statement of this 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." Capitalism and Freedom has influenced the movement of libertarian and conservative philosophy in America.
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, 1st Edition, 1962 1st Edition,Published by the University of Chicago Press.
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