January 1, 1978
Is America still the land of opportunity, or is it a land worn thin, showing much bureaucracy and less freedom? Dr. Friedman’s vie...Read more
January 1, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "What is America?" lecture.
January 8, 1978
Five myths cloud our perception of both the past and the present. Recorded at Utah State
January 8, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Myths That Conceal Reality" lecture.
January 15, 1978
The question is irrelevant. Capitalism per se is not humane or inhumane; nor is socialism. If we compare the two in terms of resul...Read more
January 15, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Is Capitalism Humane?" lecture.
January 22, 1978
John Stuart Mill said, in effect, that self-protection is the only legitimate reason for people to interfere with the freedom of o...Read more
January 22, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "The Role of Government in a Free Society" lecture.
January 29, 1978
The welfare state is an attempt to “do good” with someone else’s money. The aim may be worthy but the means are faulty. The proble...Read more
January 29, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "What is Wrong with the Welfare State?" lecture.
February 5, 1978
Inflation is blamed on many things. But it has only one cause: It is a monetary phenomenon. Inflation occurs when the quantity of ...Read more
February 5, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Money and Inflation" lecture.
February 12, 1978
Why do Americans pay more in taxes than they really want to? Can they do anything about it? Americans must understand that their t...Read more
February 12, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Is Tax Reform Possible?" lecture.
February 19, 1978
If free trade is so good, why is protectionism so popular? Part of the answer lies in a simple political principle — interests tha...Read more
February 19, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Free Trade: Producer vs Consumer" lecture.
February 26, 1978
It’s pointless to try to predict the availability of adequate sources of energy. What we need is an adjustable mechanism to enable...Read more
February 26, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Energy Crisis: A Humane Solution" lecture.
March 5, 1978
Increasing government involvement in medical care will take us toward fully socialized medicine. This trend is clearly against the...Read more
March 5, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "The Economics of Medical Care" lecture.
March 12, 1978
The quality of public education in America today in many places is deplorable. Dr. Friedman identifies (1) the increasing centrali...Read more
March 12, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Putting Learning Back in the Classroom" lecture.
March 19, 1978
Consumer legislation doesn’t in the end protect the consumer; rather, it benefits the consumer advocates, including reformers, spe...Read more
March 19, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Who Protects the Consumer?" lecture.
March 26, 1978
Unions offer protection to workers in some situations, but union membership represents only one-fifth of the American labor force....Read more
March 26, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Who Protects the Worker?" lecture.
April 2, 1978
If the government has the power and responsibility to promote equality of income, then how do we define the concept of equality? J...Read more
April 2, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "Equality and Freedom in the Free Enterprise System" lecture.
April 9, 1978
We live under a form of slavery—government domination of the market economy. We have come a long way from a truly free economy: Co...Read more
April 9, 1978
Audience Q&A session for "The Future of Our Free Society" lecture.