CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM

It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colle
agues. It's an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done b
oth." - Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune How can we benefit from the promise of
government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In his clas
sic book, Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman presents his view of the prope
r role of competitive capitalism - the organization of the bulk of economic acti
vity through private enterprise operating in a free market - as both a device fo
r achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.