Politics and Tyranny

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POimCS AND TYRANNY
Politics and Tyranny is a tribute to the world-renowned Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman. Featuring Professor Friedman's "Tyranny of the Status Quo''Politics and Tyranny assembles the proceedings of the Pacific Institute's National Dinner to Honor Milton Friedman, held October 4,1983, in San Francisco. Here Friedman discusses the difficult)' of rolling back government power due to an administration's confrontation with the entrenched power of special interest groups after the initial "honeymoon" period of office. Friedman discusses such issues as agriculture, civil liberties, education, government spending, the IMF, monetary policy, productivity, protectionism, taxation, and so forth, -and proposes a political strategy of major reforms to achieve a substantial reduction in government's size and scope.
To recognize Friedman's extensive influence on economic scholarship, public policy and the market economy. Politics and Tyranny assembles tributes by the... Tovább

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POimCS AND TYRANNY
Politics and Tyranny is a tribute to the world-renowned Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman. Featuring Professor Friedman's "Tyranny of the Status Quo''Politics and Tyranny assembles the proceedings of the Pacific Institute's National Dinner to Honor Milton Friedman, held October 4,1983, in San Francisco. Here Friedman discusses the difficult)' of rolling back government power due to an administration's confrontation with the entrenched power of special interest groups after the initial "honeymoon" period of office. Friedman discusses such issues as agriculture, civil liberties, education, government spending, the IMF, monetary policy, productivity, protectionism, taxation, and so forth, -and proposes a political strategy of major reforms to achieve a substantial reduction in government's size and scope.
To recognize Friedman's extensive influence on economic scholarship, public policy and the market economy. Politics and Tyranny assembles tributes by the distinguished economist M. Bruce Johnson (Universit)' of California at Santa Barbara), journalist Benjamin Stein {Los Angeles Herald Examiner), and business leader George M. Keller (Chairman, Chevron Corporation).
Politics and Tyranny is a landmark volume both in resolving the critical economic and social issues facing society today, and in taking stock of the enormous contributions of one of the truly great economists and public figures of the twentieth century.
"Milton Friedman is a scholar of first rank whose original contributions to economic science have made him one of the greatest thinkers in modern history."
-PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN .
"How grateful I have been over the years for the cogency of Friedman's ideas which have influenced me. Cherishers offreedom will be indebted to him for generations to come"
-ALAN GREENSPAN Former Chairman Council of Economic Advisors
"Friedman's influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics.
Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray toflght for the survival of this
great country of ours."
^ -WILLIAM E. SIMON
Former Secretary of the Treasury "Milton Friedman is the most original social thinker of the era"
-lOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Professor of Economics Harvard Universit)' Vissza