Free to Choose

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1980

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Overview

Free to Choose is a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles. It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series: The Age of Uncertainty, by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Milton Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1976.

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The Power of the Market

Episode 1

Dr. Friedman visits and narrates a number of success and failure stories in hist...

The Tyranny of Control

Episode 2

Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive...

Anatomy of a Crisis

Episode 3

The Great Depression has been popularly viewed as a failure of capitalism. The s...

From Cradle to Grave

Episode 4

The welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people's money. ...

Created Equal

Episode 5

The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman expl...

What's Wrong with our Schools

Episode 6

Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is the ...

Who Protects the Consumer?

Episode 7

Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protec...

Who Protects the Worker?

Episode 8

Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expen...

How to Cure Inflation

Episode 9

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How to Stay Free

Episode 10

Democracies have only recently been considered desirable. Historically, it was f...