How to benefit from government promises while avoiding threats to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman sets forth an extremely influential philosophy of economics, according to which competitive capitalism is a means to economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
Friedman's book "Capitalism and Freedom" is one of the most significant works ever published on the theory of economics. More than a million copies have been sold. It has been translated into 18 languages and continues to inform economic thought and policy around the world.