New Releases by Milton Friedman

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

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.

The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index.

Label mounted on cover: Transatlantic Arts, Levittown, N.Y., sole distributor for the U.S.A. Bibliography: p. 63-64.

Chiefly columns originally published in Newsweek magazine, 1966-72.

This book also published in a cloth ed. Under title: Dollars and deficits: living with America''s economic problems.

Historical developments of the last century are explained in terms of monetary theory.

This paper is concerned primarily with certain methodological problems that arise in constructing the "distinct positive science" that John Neville Keynes called for, in particular, the problem how to decide whether a suggested hypothesis or theory should be tentatively accepted as part of the "body of systematized knowledge concerning what is."

Observes methods of predicting the onset of inflation and ways to evert it through taxation.