Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.

$1,150.00

Item Number: 148025

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Gene Bersel, With best wishes and regards to a fellow U. of Chicago Alumnus Milton Friedman August 31, 1980.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.

"Excellent book, this reviewer has never read a more straightforward and simple statement of the present ills facing our society and what we as citizens in a democracy must do about them" (Chicago Sun Times). Free to Choose is an economic response to John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Age of Uncertainty, and it helped win Milton Friedman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976.