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Free to Choose A Personal Statement

Milton Friedman

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife argue that free-market forces work better than government controls for achieving real equality and security, protecting consumers and workers, providing education, and avoiding inflation and unemployment

Podcasts 6
Quotes 6
The Dan Bongino Show

The podcast host mentioned Milton Friedman's book in the context of contrasting Donald Trump's leadership style with that of a more academic or detail-oriented approach. The implication was that Trump is not someone who would focus on detailed policy analysis like that found in Friedman's works.

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If you want the guy who's going to read to you quotes and footnotes from a Milton Friedman book, he's not your guy.

— Episode: Something Serious Is Going On Behind The...

Episode: Something Serious Is Going On Behind The Scenes (E...

The podcast host mentioned Milton Friedman's book in the context of contrasting Donald Trump's leadership style with that of a more academic or detail-oriented approach. The implication was that Trump is not someone who would focus on detailed policy analysis like that found in Friedman's works.

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If you want the guy who's going to read to you quotes and footnotes from a Milton Friedman book, he's not your guy.

Modern Wisdom

The host referenced "Free to Choose," noting it as a notable work on economics and liberty.

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I think that... Free to Choose.

— Episode: #845 - Ben Shapiro - Has America Complet...

Episode: #845 - Ben Shapiro - Has America Completely Lost I...

The host referenced "Free to Choose," noting it as a notable work on economics and liberty.

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I think that... Free to Choose.

The Ben Shapiro Show

The show host mentioned that Milton Friedman's program, which was based on his work, aired on PBS, suggesting it was a notable piece of conservative media in its time.

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Milton Friedman's Free to Choose aired on PBS, and William F. Buckley's firing line was also on PBS.

— Episode: Ep. 1198 - RIP Rush Limbaugh

Episode: Ep. 1198 - RIP Rush Limbaugh

The show host mentioned that Milton Friedman's program, which was based on his work, aired on PBS, suggesting it was a notable piece of conservative media in its time.

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Milton Friedman's Free to Choose aired on PBS, and William F. Buckley's firing line was also on PBS.

a special like Milton Freeman, that happened once in a blue moon and William F. Buckley, that might happen once a week, but it certainly wasn't every day.

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

It was mentioned as a book that sparked Nick Gillespie's interest in libertarianism, specifically the focus on individualism and personal responsibility.

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I stumbled across Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, Milton Rose Friedman's book which had been also made into a PBS series.

— Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Godfather...

Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Godfather of the Lib...

It was mentioned as a book that sparked Nick Gillespie's interest in libertarianism, specifically the focus on individualism and personal responsibility.

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I stumbled across Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, Milton Rose Friedman's book which had been also made into a PBS series.

The Rubin Report

The podcast host mentioned an old clip from a debate featuring Thomas Sowell from the book, 'Free to Choose'. The host highlighted Sowell's point about socialist ideas often failing in practice, illustrating the impracticality of certain principles with human beings.

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Another, you keep telling me how these are wonderful ideas is just that they never work out in practice. It's like the Marxists were telling us that Eastern Europe wasn't really socialism. Nothing tha...

— Episode: Fauci Stuns Media. He's Not Convinced of...

Episode: Fauci Stuns Media. He's Not Convinced of COVID Nat...

The podcast host mentioned an old clip from a debate featuring Thomas Sowell from the book, 'Free to Choose'. The host highlighted Sowell's point about socialist ideas often failing in practice, illustrating the impracticality of certain principles with human beings.

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Another, you keep telling me how these are wonderful ideas is just that they never work out in practice. It's like the Marxists were telling us that Eastern Europe wasn't really socialism. Nothing that ever existed on this earth was ever really socialism. It's only in their imagination. At some point you have to ask yourself could it be that this principle cannot work out in practice with human beings as they exist on this planet?

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