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Money Mischief, by Milton Friedman (Harcourt, Brace, 274 pp., $19.95)

IT IS HARD to believe that three decades have passed since Milton Friedman shook the world with Capitalism and Freedom. It was not his first book, but it was the first aimed at a popular audience. A work of unintimidating size, written with startling clarity and persuasiveness, it immediately captured hearts and minds as nothing else of its kind had done since Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson.

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Alan Reynolds

Alan Reynolds, National Review’s economics editor from 1972 to 1976, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Income and Wealth.

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Money Mischief, by Milton Friedman (Harcourt, Brace, 274 pp., $19.95)

IT IS HARD to believe that three decades have passed since Milton Friedman shook the world with Capitalism and Freedom. It was not his first book, but it was the first aimed at a popular audience. A work of unintimidating size, written with startling clarity and persuasiveness, it immediately captured hearts and minds as nothing else of its kind had done since Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson.