by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman · Deusto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423434183
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In 'Freedom to Choose', Milton and Rose Friedman argue that economic freedom is essential for political freedom. They explore how a free market system, by allowing voluntary cooperation, limits the power of the State and disperses economic power. The Friedmans demonstrate that a liberalized economy not only curbs tyranny but also fosters prosperity and individual freedoms. However, they warn that the unlimited growth of the State threatens these freedoms, contrasting individual responsibility and autonomy with a paternalistic and interventionist State. This book invites reflection on the importance of freedom of choice and the dangers of sacrificing it for a false sense of security.
Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Several students, young professors and academics who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Nobel laureates Gary Becker (1992), Robert Fogel (1993), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1995).
