MILTON FRIEDMAN: A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE IDEAS AND INFLUENCE OF THE FREE-MARKET ECONOMIST
Book ID/图书代码： 05930010B43931
English Summary/英文概要： Milton Friedman changed the world. From free markets in China to the flat taxes of Eastern Europe, from the debate on drugs to interest rate policy, Friedman’s skill for vivid argument and ideas led to robust and often successful challenges to a dizzying amount of received wisdom.
Relying on big-picture economic analysis and an insistent faith in human freedom, he took on the economic and political orthodoxies of his day - and if he didn’t always win, he never failed to change the terms of the debate.
Rarely an uncontroversial figure, with his disciples and detractors to this day, this is neither a credulous nor a critical look at the Nobel laureate. A brand new guide, it simply sets out to explain his economic and public policy thinking in a straightforward and accessible way for the general reader and student.
Find out:
- how Friedman undermined Keynesianism and the prevailing wisdom of large-scale economic intervention
- how he demonstrated the true cause of the Great Depression and identified its real culprits (they weren’t the ones jumping out of the windows)
- what Friedman believed really destroys the value of the money in your pocket and how it can be stopped
- his arguments for why regulations and minimum- wage laws actually achieve lower standards and greater poverty
- his reasons for why big corporations prefer markets that aren’t free, and how high taxation harms the wealthy less than anyone else.
With more, too, on democracy, equality, global trade, education, public services and financial crises, this is a concise but comprehensive guide to the influence of a key 20th century thinker.
It is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the economist whose work changed everything.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 弥尔顿.弗里德曼改变了整个世界。从中国的自由市场到东欧国家的单一税制，从对毒品的争论到对利率政策的辩论，弗里德曼在辩论上气魄十足、观点鲜明生动，常常成功地对那些所谓的、令人眼花缭乱的公认真理发出挑战。 在对经济形势做了宏观全面的分析以及在对人类自由坚定信仰的基础上，他持有他那个时代在经济政治上的正统观念。而且就算他并不总是赢得辩论，他也毫无疑问地改变了辩论这个词的原有含义。
他一直以来都是一位颇有争议的人物。时至今日，有人推崇他，也有人批评他。对于一位诺贝尔奖获得者而言，这并不意味着是由轻率相信或是挑剔批评带来结果。这是具有全新意义的指导用书，它用一种直接、便于普通读者和学生理解的方式阐释了弗里德曼的经济政策和公共政策。
你会看到：
--弗里德曼是如何动摇凯恩斯主义的地位以及如何贬低盛行的大规模经济干预的措施
--他是如何论证大萧条的真正起因及如何找出它的真正罪魁祸首（始作俑者并不是那些跳楼自杀的人们）
--弗里德曼所信仰的信念可以真正摧毁你手中金钱的价值，而这又可以如何被制止
--他论证了为什么那些规章制度和规定最低工资的法律实际上降低了人们的生活水平，并加剧了贫困状况
--他给出为什么大公司宁愿市场不如现在这般自由的原因，以及高额税收对富人的不利影响远远小于对一般人的影响。
除此之外，本书还涉及更多关于民主、平等、全球贸易、教育、公共服务及经济危机方面的问题。这本书是一本阐述20世纪一位关键思想者影响的简洁而全面的指导用书
对于任何一位想要更多地了解这位改变一切的经济学家的人来说，本书都是一本必读的佳作。(XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：“历史上最重要的经济学思想家之一。”——保罗.克鲁格曼 "One of the most important economic thinkers of all time"---Paul Krugman
About the Author/作者介绍： 埃蒙.巴特勒是亚当.史密斯协会的会长，该协会是世界上主要的政策智囊团之一。巴特勒拥有经济学、哲学和心理学的学位，并于1978年获得圣安德鲁斯大学的哲学博士学位。在二十世纪七十年代，他为美国众议院从事养老金和福利事业方面工作。在回到英国亚当.史密斯协会之前，他在密歇根的希尔斯代学院教授哲学课程。 埃蒙出版了一系列介绍哈耶克，路德维希.冯.米塞斯和亚当.斯密那样先驱经济学家的书籍。他还与人合著了《四千年来的工资》、《价格控制》和一系列有关智力测验的作品。
埃蒙为英国顶级印刷和广播媒体创作探讨事实为主题的作品，其近期畅销作品《市场上最佳作品》，《英国腐烂状态》和《宣言选择》，引起了极大的关注。
Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute, rated one of the world’s leading policy think-tanks. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978. During the 1970s he worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy in Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute.
Eamonn is author of books on the pioneering economists F A Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith. He is also co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, and of a series of books on intelligence testing.
Eamonn contributes to the leading UK print and broadcast media on current issues, and his recent popular books The Best Book on the Market, The Rotten State of Britain and The Alternative Manifesto have attracted considerable attention.
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