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Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest | 
 enlarge | Authors: Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 955022
Media: Paperback
Edition: Trade ed
Pages: 393
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0156141612
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780156141611
ASIN: 0156141612
Publication Date: May 1983
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Book Description
The Nobel Prize winner writes here on current issues of prevailing concern to every American citizen and taxpayer, displaying the powers of analysis and expression that have made him one of the most widely respected economists in America. Edited and with an Introduction by William R. Allen.
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Great material presented more efficiently in Free to Choose December 23, 2004
Jerry H. Tempelman (New York, NY)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is the third and final edition of a collection of Milton Friedman's Newsweek columns which ran from the mid 1960s through the early 1980s, along with a few other things such as Friedman's interview in Playboy, February 1973, and a few newspaper articles. The columns in this volume ran from 1975-1982. In addition, there are three particularly timeless columns from an earlier period (on the case for a monetary rule and on the negative income tax), as well as the Playboy interview. The contents covers Friedman's usual repertoire about monetary policy, fiscal policy and taxation, government regulation, and international economics.
Part of Friedman's brilliance is his ability to explain advanced economic concepts to general readers without "dumbing down" the substance. Still, the bulk of the material appears in slightly better organized fashion in the book Free to Choose, which Friedman wrote together with his wife Rose, and which appeared in 1980. You may first want to read Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose. If you want more Friedman at that point, this makes for a great collection, although much of it may sound repetitive after reading Free to Choose.
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