Milton Friedman Książki

A riveting inside look at the turbulent, controversial world of the futures markets through the eyes of the man who made them what they are today. Melamed relates how he helped create the futures markets and the changes they wrought in the financial world of the 1980s, the importance of futures markets to the global economy, the debate over them in the wake of the 1987 crash and the future of electronic global markets.

The major social problems of the United States—deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care—have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document. The difficult task is understanding why government is the problem. The power of special interests arising from the concentrated benefits of most government actions and their dispersed costs is only part of the answer. A more fundamental part is the difference between the self-interest of individuals when they are engaged in the private sector and the self-interest of the same individuals when they are engaged in the government sector. The result is a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats. At the moment, term limits apear to be the reform that promises to be most effective in curbing Leviathan.

Wolny wybór - to książka wyjątkowa! Idee i treści w niej zawarte wpłynęły na gospodarcze losy wielu krajów świata. Pomimo czasu, jaki upłynął od jej pierwszej publikacji, wciąż stanowi ona doskonale udokumentowany, pasjonujący wykład na temat stosunków społecznych w dzisiejszym państwie. Książka pokazuje mechanizmy sprawowania władzy, cele jakie jej przyświecają i rolę jaką odgrywa władza i poszczególne jej agendy, w życiu współczesnego człowieka. Pokazuje też efekty tego wpływu na życie, zarówno całych społeczeństw, jak i poszczególnych jednostek.