Milton Friedman : a concise guide to the ideas and influence of the free-market economist / Eamonn Butler.
"One of the most important economic thinkers of all time ..."--Paul Krugman Milton Friedman changed the world. From free markets in China to the flat taxes of Eastern Europe, from the debate on drugs to interest rate policy, Friedman's skill for vivid argument and ideas led to robust...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction
- A Timeline of Milton Friedman's Life and Work
- 1. The economist who changed everything
- Worldwide influence
- The making of an economist
- The public intellectual
- 2. How to end financial crises
- The false trust in governments
- A better explanation
- Lessons for today
- 3. Curing inflation and unemployment
- The disease of inflation
- Other explanations of inflation
- Inflation versus unemployment?
- How to control inflation
- How to not cure inflation
- 4. A bonfire of controls
- Free people and free tradeSetting currencies free
- The poverty of regulation
- 5. The failure of government
- The role of government
- Why governments fail
- The fraud of government
- A different approach
- 6. The merits of markets
- Friedman on markets
- Diversity, not discrimination
- Markets help ordinary people
- 7. Freedom and equality
- The quest for equality
- Why freedom works
- The importance of personal freedom
- Friedman's view of humankind
- Further reading
- Index