March 3, 1980
Dr. Friedman visits and narrates a number of success and failure stories in history, which he attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof.
January 1, 1970
Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, be...Read more
January 1, 1970
The Great Depression has been popularly viewed as a failure of capitalism. The stock market crash, the failure of the Bank of the ...Read more
January 1, 1970
The welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people's money. Such attempts always fail because: Nobody spends s...Read more
January 1, 1970
The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman explains that this did not mean all persons should or ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is the U.S. tradition and is consistent with a free socie...Read more
January 1, 1970
Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, s...Read more
January 1, 1970
Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its emplo...Read more
January 1, 1970
Inflation results when the amount of money printed or coined increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money i...Read more
January 1, 1970
Democracies have only recently been considered desirable. Historically, it was feared that democracies always self destruct when c...Read more