Friedman as Rhetor

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch By Milton Friedman Open Court, 318 pp., $7.95 This is not really a book review. But then, what I am not really reviewing is not really a book. It is a collection of Milton Friedman’s Newsweek columns, with a few other articles and a long interview thrown in for good measure. If not a book, however, it adds up to a very interesting whole, and (to my mind) a gratifyingly readable one.

I am one of those who flee in terror from technical discussions of economics. Non-technical discussions, for that matter, tend to make me cough discreetly and leave the room. The nice thing about Friedman is his empathy for the ignorant. No man, I am given to understand, is more at home in the abstrusities of his science; yet he is. a lucid and perceptive apostle to the ignorant.

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch By Milton Friedman Open Court, 318 pp., $7.95 This is not really a book review. But then, what I am not really reviewing is not really a book. It is a collection of Milton Friedman’s Newsweek columns, with a few other articles and a long interview thrown in for good measure. If not a book, however, it adds up to a very interesting whole, and (to my mind) a gratifyingly readable one.

I am one of those who flee in terror from technical discussions of economics. Non-technical discussions, for that matter, tend to make me cough discreetly and leave the room. The nice thing about Friedman is his empathy for the ignorant. No man, I am given to understand, is more at home in the abstrusities of his science; yet he is. a lucid and perceptive apostle to the ignorant.