Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Milton Friedman · Rose D. Friedman

Jan 2006 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by James Adams

About this audiobook

All who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free-market economy will never question Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize in economics.

Milton Friedman and his wife Rose team up to write a most convincing and readable guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith’s capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental agencies, laws, and regulations. While a large central government may have good intentions, the results it produces are lamentable. More than another indictment of government planning and bureaucracy, however, Free to Choose offers several convincing and creative remedies to the world’s woes.

Powerful and persuasive, here is the important analysis of what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.

Ratings and reviews

I purchased this in audio book format from a thrift shop as a means to overcome boredom on a 12+ hour road trip. I can't imagine anything better written or more concise in it's explanation of not just capitalism but the nature of American ideals. This should be a required reading for high school, college and preparation to run for political office. I pulled off the freeway many times to replay many parts of this. It is excellent.

Why can't I read THE FULL review of each person? Why do you cut it off??!

Absolutely incredible. Should be suggested reading in every high school and college!

About the author

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) was perhaps the most influential economist of the twentieth century. Professor, columnist, author, and advisor, he was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in economic sciences.

Rose D. Friedman (1910–2009) was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She was the author, with her husband Milton Freidman, of two books on economics and public policy, Free to Choose and Tyranny of the Status Quo, as well as their memoir, Two Lucky People.

James Adams is one of the world’s leading authorities on terrorism and intelligence, and for more than twenty-five years he has specialized in national security. He is also the author of fourteen bestselling books on warfare, with a particular emphasis on covert warfare. A former managing editor of the London Sunday Times and CEO of United Press International, he trained as a journalist in England, where he graduated first in the country. Now living in Southern Oregon, he has narrated numerous audiobooks and earned an AudioFile Earphones Award and two coveted Audie Award for best narration.