Books in Brief: An Economist’s Protest

An Economist’s Protest, by Milton Friedman (Horton, 219 pp.).

No need to thumb through a stack of yellowed News-weeks for that quotable Friedman column you read last year (or was it the year before?). This volume squeezes six years of explosive iconoclasm into a neat little package—over a hundred brief essays arranged chronologically within topics, each topic prefaced by a new introduction. It is easy to forget the extent to