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Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (1980)
Husband-and-wife economists Milton and Rose Friedman wrote Free to Choose (which was also a ten-part series on PBS) as an alternative to John Kenneth Galbraith's book The Age of Uncertainty (also a television series), which promoted interventionist government economic policies. Like the earlier Capitalism and Freedom, Free to Choose praises the virtues of a free market and argues that so-called cradle-to-grave policies are inferior to those that are market driven. The television series outlined both successful and failed economic stories to demonstrate, in the Friedman's view, how capitalism ultimately leads to long-term prosperity. |