Generally, government does a poor job with what it touches. The Friedmans argue from a pragmatic standpoint more than from a philosophical standpoint. The basic premise is that people should be free to make their own choices whenever possible, and that government's role is to protect us from each other, and not to protect us from ourselves. I really enjoyed this book, and it confirmed some of my fears that I am really a libertarian at heart. Either it's not going to work resulting in too much human suffering and/or there's no political will." To which, I find myself asking the more disturbing question: why not? if both left and right agree that more economic freedoms are good, then why isn't it a possibility in this age to give the people those freedoms? Friedman, but we simply couldn't do that in 2011. In the end, sometimes I found myself thinking, "yes, Mr. simply never accomplishes what it sets out to do. Rather, it requires the reader to ferociously wrack their brain for a counter argument or alternative solution to their assertions that governmental controls over economic freedoms (by regulation, price and wage controls, nationalization of industries, printing money, adding programs, bowing to special interests, etc). Written in 1979, one of the libertarian economist(s) Friedmans' most accessible works, the clear-written and thought-provoking work does not require the reader to agree with Mr.
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