Product Description: All who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free market economy will never question Milton Friedman's Nobel Prize in economics. Friedman and his wife Rose team to write a most convincing and readable guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society...read more

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.

"I cannot pretend that the present version is the finished treatise that I had in mind (or in youthful dreams) in the earlier years of teaching the course. But it is a much expanded and, I hope, improved version. I have filled in four of the six gaps that I enumerated in the preface to the initial version. The two I have not filled in are industrial organization for reasons given at the end of chapter 6 and the theory of general equilibrium, because there are such good extant expositions of the classical Walrasian general equilibrium approach and I am not competent to present a succinct yet faithful exposition of the more recent general equilibrium developments, particularly in the field of growth models. In addition, I rather suspect that these developments are as yet in a preliminary and unsatisfactory state." – Milton Friedman, from the preface to the revised edition

Product Description: [Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Nadia May] Nobel Prize-winning author Milton Friedman demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system; how, for example, the work of two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how Franklin D...read more

Product Description: In his answer to questions from libertarians. Friedman criticizes the immorality and ineffectiveness of wage-price controls; finds fault with the makeup of the Price Commision; devaultion, and the draft. Friedman is the leading spokesman for the Chicago school of economics and the author of innumerable books and articles...read more

Product Description: At the January 1977 meeting of its monthly Economic Seminar series, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco was honored to present Prof. Franco Modigliani, Immediate Past President of the American Economic Association. In his paper, Prof...read more

Examines the nature of the relationship which exists between a society based on competitive capitalism and the political and economic freedoms of its citizens

The Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife provide an account of their lives and the work they shared, highlighting their involvement in many of the century's most important public policy issues

Discusses how complicated monetary economics is, explains how seemingly unrelated events have affected one another, and looks at the history of giving items value--from stones to feathers to gold