New Releases by Milton Friedman

These two volumes present essays on the subdiscipline of Chicago Monetarism in economics. Some of the issues under dispute can be regarded as resolved, while others are still being debated. The contibutors include Friedman, Patinkin, Harry Johnson and James Tobin.

These two volumes present essays on the subdiscipline of Chicago Monetarism in economics. Some of the issues under dispute can be regarded as resolved, while others are still being debated. The contibutors include Friedman, Patinkin, Harry Johnson and James Tobin.

Nesta obra hoje clássica, Milton Friedman apresenta a argumentação da sua filosofia económica, que se viria a tornar influentíssima. Para o autor, Prémio Nobel da Economia, o capitalismo em regime de livre concorrência funciona simultaneamente como veículo para se atingir a liberdade económica e como condição necessária para a liberdade política.

O tratado definitivo do pensamento econômico que ainda hojeinfluencia políticas no mundo todo Como podemos nos beneficiar das promessas do governo e ao mesmo tempo evitar a ameaça que um Estado forte representa para as liberdades individuais? E qual é o papel do governo em uma sociedade livre, que depende principalmente do mercado para organizar a atividade econômica? Nesta obra clássica, Milton Friedman apresenta o tratado definitivo de sua influente filosofia econômica. Seu principal objetivo é analisar o papel do capitalismo competitivo, que, segundo ele, é condição necessária para a liberdade política. Por isso, Friedman investigou extensivamente os padrões de consumo, a história e a teoria monetária, bem como a complexidade das políticas de estabilização. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1962, Capitalismo e liberdade se tornou uma referência: a edição original vendeu quase um milhão de cópias, foi traduzida em dezenove idiomas e continua sendo um modelo fundamental para o liberalismo e para aqueles que veem a liberdade econômica como condição essencial para a liberdade política. A nova edição da Intrínseca inclui os prefácios escritos pelo autor para as reedições de 1982 e 2002, assim como apresentação de Binyamin Appelbaum, principal redator de economia do conselho editorial do The New York Times.

Tato kniha vznikla v 60. letech minulého století jako reakce na poválečné snahy americké vlády zvyšovat svoji roli v ekonomice a centralizovat ekonomické rozhodování a moc. Autor ovšem v knize tvrdí, že politická a ekonomická svoboda jsou neoddělitelně spjaty – jedno bez druhého nemůže existovat.Ohledně přínosu politické svobody se dnes již spory nevedou, na straně ekonomických zásahů ale taková shoda nepanuje. Centralizace rozhodování a masivní vládní zásahy do hospodářství jsou i dnes na denním pořádku a Friedmanova kniha má v tomto ohledu čtenáři stále co nabídnout. Autor argumentuje pro laissez faire a svobodnou volbu jednotlivce před vládními zásahy do trhů prostřednictvím cel, dotací a regulací. Čtenář se v knize dozví celou řadu konkrétních ekonomických návrhů směřujících ke svobodnější a více prosperující společnosti a sám si může udělat obrázek, jak se za posledních desítek let debata (ne)posunula.

“Milton Friedman, dikkat çekici analitik yetenekleri ve teknik ustalığıyla diğerlerinden ayrılan, ABD’nin olağanüstü iktisatçılarından biri. Her zaman aydınlatıcı, özgür, cesur, zeki ve en önemlisi de ufuk açıcı.” Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek “Kendi meslektaşlarının düşünüş şeklini büyük ölçüde değiştirebilen bir profesör çok nadirdir. Dünyanın değişmesine etki edeni daha da nadirdir. Friedman ikisini de başardı.” Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’ün ilk baskısı 1962 yılında yayınlandığında, Büyük Buhran’ın acı hatıraları Amerikan halkının önemli bir kısmının hafızasında halen canlıydı. O dönemde, entelektüellerin yanı sıra hem Cumhuriyetçi hem Demokrat siyasetçilerin de tercihleri Keynesyen politikalardı. Böyle bir atmosferde yayınlanan Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’te Friedman, devlet müdahalesinin niyet edilmemiş kötü sonuçlarına dikkat çekti. Rekabetçi kapitalizmin teorik ve pratik üstünlüklerini açık ve kuvvetli bir şekilde izah etti. Friedman, bu kitapta, ekonomik özgürlükler ile siyasî özgürlükler arasındaki bağıntıyı net bir şekilde ortaya koymuştur. Friedman’ın iktisat felsefesinde merkezî bir tema olan rekabetçi kapitalizm, hem iktisadî özgürlüğe ulaşmak için bir araç hem de siyasî özgürlük için gerekli bir koşuldur. Güncelliğini o zamandan bu yana dünyanın pek çok yerinde koruyan önemli pratik konulara rekabetçi kapitalizm perspektifinden yaklaşımlar sunan Friedman, devletin, duhul ettiği alanlardaki olumsuz etkilerini araştırmış ve bunlara çözüm önerileri getirmiştir. Devlet müdahalesinin etkilerinin yoğun bir şekilde hissedildiği uluslararası ticaret, malî politika, eğitim sistemi, ayrımcılık, tekeller, ruhsatlandırma, gelir dağılımı, sosyal refah politikaları ve yoksulluk gibi konular bu kitabın odaklandığı alanlardandır. Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük, 20. Yüzyıl’ın en etkili ve etkileyici kitaplarından birisi olarak gösterilmektedir. İlk edisyonundan sonra birkaç kez revize edilen kitap, onlarca dile çevrilmiş, tüm dünyada yüzbinlerce okura ulaşmıştır. Kitap, birçok ülkenin iktisat politikasını etkileyen fikirleri yaymasının yanı sıra Friedman’ın 1976 yılında Nobel İktisat Ödülü almasında etkili olmuştur.

In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman''s best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format—and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman''s audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger online collection are sorely needed and very welcome. Milton Friedman deserves to be read in the original by generation after generation. These days, many people channel Friedman to support their own views, which sometimes are quite contrary to his actual views. With so much of it now readily available, everyone will find it easier to remember and learn from what he actually wrote and said. Readers will find the book refreshing whether or not they are already familiar with Friedman''s work.

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1962, "Capitalismo e libertà" è divenuto in poco tempo un classico del pensiero liberale del Novecento. Milton Friedman, Premio Nobel per l''Economia nel 1976, in queste pagine produce un''argomentata difesa del libero mercato, come condizione indispensabile per lo sviluppo di una società libera e come strumento migliore per realizzare fini socialmente condivisi. Passando in rassegna diversi ambiti in cui lo Stato interviene per regolare la vita degli individui, poco alla volta delinea un nuovo modo di concepire il ruolo del settore pubblico. Dalle politiche commerciali al sistema finanziario internazionale, dalle politiche fiscali alla lotta contro la povertà e le discriminazioni, dall''educazione al mercato del lavoro e allo Stato sociale, Friedman suggerisce strategie innovative per ridisegnare i confini fra autonomia individuale e intervento pubblico - ancora attuali a quasi cinquant''anni dalla pubblicazione.

Et si l''on retournait aux sources de l''économie classique pour trouver des réponses à la situation économique actuelle ? Paru pour la première fois en 1962, Capitalisme et liberté est l''un des ouvrages clés de la pensée économique. Milton Friedman, père du courant monétariste et fondateur de l''école de Chicago, y défend la liberté économique comme condition nécessaire à toute liberté politique et développe sa propre vision du libéralisme. Son analyse profonde, présentée sans jargon et accessible à tous, est encore et toujours d''actualité.

This selection from the authors'' A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton) describes the changes that were made in the banking structure and in the monetary standard following the great contraction of 1929 to 1933, the establishment of monetary policies after the New Deal period, and the development of inflation during World War II. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln''s government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

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? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.

“Magisterial. . . . The direct and indirect influence of the Monetary History would be difficult to overstate.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve From Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and his celebrated colleague Anna Jacobson Schwartz, one of the most important economics books of the twentieth century—the landmark work that rewrote the story of the Great Depression and the understanding of monetary policy Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz’s A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, it marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to argue that monetary policy—steady control of the money supply—matters profoundly in the management of the nation’s economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. One of the book’s most important chapters, “The Great Contraction, 1929–33” addressed the central economic event of the twentieth century, the Great Depression. Friedman and Schwartz argued that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression, but failed to exercise its role of managing the monetary system and countering banking panics. The book served as a clarion call to the monetarist school of thought by emphasizing the importance of the money supply in the functioning of the economy—an idea that has come to shape the actions of central banks worldwide.

Friedman and Schwartz''s A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management of the nation''s economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. The chapter entitled "The Great Contraction, 1929-33" addressed the central economic event of the century, the Great Depression. Published as a stand-alone paperback in 1965, The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 argued that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression, but failed to exercise its role of managing the monetary system and ameliorating banking panics. The book served as a clarion call to the monetarist school of thought by emphasizing the importance of the money supply in the functioning of the economy--a concept that has come to inform the actions of central banks worldwide. This edition of the original text includes a new preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz, as well as a new introduction by the economist Peter Bernstein. It also reprints comments from the current Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, originally made on the occasion of Milton Friedman''s 90th birthday, on the enduring influence of Friedman and Schwartz''s work and vision.

Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers collects a variety of Friedman''s papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the Journal of Political Economy. Opening with Friedman''s 1977 Nobel Lecture, the volume spans nearly the whole of his career, incorporating papers from as early as 1948 and as late as 1990.

Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic problem should be solved. The effects of price or rent control on the distribution of income are problems of positive economics. The desirability of these effects on income distribution is a problem of normative economics. Within economics, the major division is between monetary theory and price theory. Monetary theory deals with the level of prices in general, with cyclical and other fluctuations in total output, total employment, and the like. Price theory deals with the allocation of resources among different uses, the price of one item relative to another. Prices do three kinds of things. They transmit information, they provide an incentive to users of resources to be guided by this information, and they provide an incentive to owners of resources to follow this information. Milton Friedman''s classic book provides the theoretical underpinning for and understanding of prices. Economics is not concerned solely with economic problems. It is a social science, and is therefore concerned primarily with those economic problems whose solutions involve the cooperation and interaction of different individuals. It is concerned with problems involving a single individual only insofar as the individual''s behavior has implications for or effects upon other individuals. Price Theory is concerned not with economic problems in the abstract, but with how a particular society solves its economic problems.

Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler shaped economics as we know it today - their Chicago School laid the groundwork for much of the neoclassical tradition in economic analysis. This book brings together a collection of letters from these two Noble laureates from the post-war years, containing new information about their personal and professional relationships, and also illuminating the development of ideas which are now fundamental to economic theory. The book, expertly edited by Dan and Claire Hammond, contains an introductory chapter, chronologies for Friedman and Stigler, and transcripts of sixty eight letters written from 1945 to 1957 along with enclosures.

This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena and policy. The early chapters cover factors determining the real quantity of money held in a community and the welfare implications of policies that affect the quantity held. The following chapters formally restate why quantity analysis has become central to the science of economics. Friedman''s presidential address to the American Economic Association, included here, provides a general summary of his views on the role of monetary policy, with an emphasis on its limitations and its possibilities. This theoretical framework is used in examining a number of empirical problems: the demand for money, the explanation of price changes in wartime periods, and the role of money in business cycles. These essays summarize some of the most important results of Friedman''s extensive research over the course of his lifetime. The chapters on policy that follow survey the positions of earlier economists and deal with the importance of lags and the implications of destabilizing speculation in foreign markets. Taken as a whole, The Optimum Quantity of Money provides a comprehensive view of the body of monetary theory developed in leading centers of monetary analysis. This work is essential reading for economists and graduate students in the field. The volume will be no less important for practicing business and banking personnel as well. The new statement by Michael Bordo, a student of Friedman''s and an expert in the field, provides a sense of where the field now stands in the economy and academy. Milton Friedman is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Before that, he was Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and Cambridge University. Among his many books are Essays in Positive Economics, A Program for Monetary Stability, Capitalism and Freedom, and A Monetary History of the United States. Michael D. Bordo is professor of economics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and author, with Lars Jonung, of, among other works, Demand for Money.

Apart from providing an account of two productive careers, the book is laced with entertaining details of life on the academic and ideological high wire.

The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets. In this “lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history” (Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes offers a journey through history to illustrate the importance of understanding monetary economics, and how monetary theory can ignite or deepen inflation. With anecdotes revealing the far-reaching consequences of seemingly minor events—for example, how two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how FDR’s domestic politics helped communism triumph in China—as well as plain-English explanations of what the monetary system in the United States means for your personal finances and for everyone from the small business owner on Main Street to the banker on Wall Street, Money Mischief is an enlightening read from the author of Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, who was called “the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century” by the Economist.