- Business, Capitalism, Economic policy, Liberty
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom?
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Earnest, classical in form, cool and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Milton Friedman
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 202
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Blackstone Audiobooks, Careertapes Enterprises
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780226264219
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