New Releases by Milton Friedman

Professor Friedman & Dr. Szasz build on Libertarian principles to argue that the government''s drug policies are both harmful & wrong. The Drug Policy Foundation has assembled trenchant essays & exclusive interviews by both men that demonstrate the failings of the American drug war. Friedman presents the economic evidence for a free market & against prohibition. Szasz points out that drugspeak conceals the ritual scapegoating of certain drugs & drug users.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today''s brightest economist. In this classic discussion, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. This important analysis reveals what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.

Une reprise économique dont l’ampleur et la durée ont déjoué les prévisions, un dollar plus fort que jamais, un vigoureux rétablissement psychologique : America is back, l’Amérique est de retour. Elle a pansé ses plaies, liquidé sa mauvaise conscience, retrouvé avec avidité les valeurs “positives” que l’histoire a inscrites dans son acte de naissance, renoué avec l’esprit d’aventure, devenu pari sur la technologie et qui se traduit par un pullulement d’entreprises nouvelles et l’explosion des médias. C’est un nouveau Nouveau Monde que cette enquête de L’Expansion nous fait découvrir, en nous incitant à y puiser de nouvelles idées et de nouveaux enthousiasmes.

Free to Choose was an international best-seller in 1980. Its forceful message influenced a number of world leaders -- among them Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The Friedmans explained how free markets enable people to make the best use of their talents. In Tyranny of the Status Quo, Milton and Rose Friedman describe a remarkable political phenomenon: the uniform tendency in government to reverse the declared policies of leaders whether left or right. In the first six to nine months following their election, Reagan, Thatcher, and Mitterand, too, initiated big changes. Soon, each was frustrated by the Iron Triangle which preserves the status quo. In the triangle''s corners are the direct beneficiaries of laws, the bureaucrats who thrive on them, the politicians who seek votes.

The special task of this book is to present a statistical and theoretical analysis of the relation between the quantity of money and other key economic magnitudes over periods longer than those dominated by cyclical fluctuations-hence the term trends in the title. This book is not restricted to the United States but includes comparable data for the United Kingdom.

Discusses political economy, political freedom, governmental regulations, monetary policy, taxation, and international economics.

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, the author provides the definitive statement of his economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.