![]() ![]() He says the opposite, of course, but decades of the applications of his prescriptions have turned America into a grossly and increasingly unequal society. Naturally, this freedom he is so fond of generally equates to a freedom for the majority to have less while the few are given much more. It is hard to imagine anything more mean-spirited than such a person. He rails against equality as all liberals (in the traditional definition of that term) tend to. Friedman is only interested in what he refers to as freedom. ![]() The French Revolution was fought under a flag of three colours and for three causes, Liberté, égalité, fraternité – Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood. If one needed proof that much of modern economics is an exercise in ideology and self-interested appeals on behalf of the obscenely wealthy then this book provides ample evidence. This book is an interesting case of modern day sophistry – where the worse argument is made to appear the better. ![]()
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