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　　The international bestseller on the extent to which personal

freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies

while personal prosperity has been undermined by government

spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors;

Index.

FOREWORD TO THE HARVEST EDITION

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1  The Power of the Market

CHAPTER 2 The Tyranny of Controls

CHAPTER 3 The Anatomy of Crisis

CHAPTER 4 Cradle to Grave

CHAPTER 5 Created Equal

CHAPTER 6 What's Wrong with Our Schools?

CHAPTER 7 Who Protects the Consumer?

CHAPTER 8  Who Protects the Worker?

CHAPTER 9 The Cure for Inflation

CHAPTER 1O The Tide Is Turning

APPENDICES

NOTES

INDEX

　　Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover

Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden

Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the

University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in

economics. He has written a number of books, including two with his

wife, Rose D. Friedman—the bestselling Free to Choose and Two Lucky

People: Memoirs, the latter published by the University of Chicago

Press.^Rose D. Friedman has written two books with her husband

Milton Friedman, the bestselling "Free to Choose" and "Two Lucky

People: Memoirs", the latter published by the University of Chicago

Press.

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Much of the moral fervor behind the drive for equality of outcome comes from the widespread belief that it is not fair that some children should have a great advantage over others simply because they happen to have wealthy parents. Of course it is not fair. However, unfairness can take many forms. It can take the form of the inheritance of property—bonds and stocks, houses, factories; it can also take the form of the inheritance of talent—musical ability, strength, mathematical genius. The inheritance of property can be interfered with more readily than the inheritance of talent. But from an ethical point of view, is there any difference between the two? Yet many people resent the inheritance of property but not the inheritance of talent.

Look at the same issue from the point of view of the parent. If you want to assure your child a higher income in life, you can do so in various ways. You can buy him (or her) an education that will equip him to pursue an occupation yielding a high income; or you can set him up in a business that will yield a higher income than he could earn as a salaried employee; or you can leave him property, the income from which will enable him to live better. Is there any ethical difference among these three ways of using your property? Or again, if the state leaves you any money to spend over and above taxes, should the state permit you to spend it on riotous living but not to leave it to your children?

The ethical issues involved are subtle and complex. They are not to be resolved by such simplistic formulas as "fair shares for all." Indeed, if we took that seriously, youngsters with less musical skill should be given the greatest amount of musical training in order to compensate for their inherited disadvantage, and those with greater musical aptitude should be prevented from having access to good musical training; and similarly with all other categories of inherited personal qualities. That might be "fair" to the youngsters lacking in talent, but would it be "fair" to the talented, let alone to those who had to work to pay for training the youngsters lacking talent, or to the persons deprived of the benefits that might have come from the cultivation of the talents of the gifted?

Life is not fair. It is tempting to believe that government can rectify what nature has spawned. But it is also important to recognize how much we benefit from the very unfairness we deplore.

但必须严肃指出，在《自由选择》一书里中，弗里德曼在有的地方把我国的人民民主政权和希特勒的法西斯政权相提并论，有的地方甚至把我国说成是恐怖国家，这是非常错误的。

近几十年来，平等这一概念在美国出现了另一种含义，即“结果平等”。这种观念认为，人人都应当享有相同的生活水平或拥有相同的收入，同时应结束彼此之间的竞争。显然，结果平等与自由是相互冲突的。人们为促进结果平等做出了种种努力，这正是导致政府日益膨胀并对我们的自由强加越来越多的限制的主要原因。

书籍介绍

Free to Choose (1980) is a book and a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles.

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement maintains that the free market works best for all members of a society, provides examples of how the free market engenders prosperity, and maintains that it can solve problems where other approaches have failed. Published in January 1980, the 297 page book contains 10 chapters.

Milton Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1976. Contrary to normal practice the book was written after the TV series was produced, although the line "Basis for the acclaimed public television triumph" is written on the front cover, using the program transcripts as reference. The book was on the United States best sellers list for 5 weeks.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof (e.g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry). Following the primary show, Dr. Friedman would engage in discussion with a number of selected persons, such as Donald Rumsfeld (then of G.D. Searle & Company).

The series was rebroadcast in 1990 with Linda Chavez moderating the episodes. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan, Steve Allen and others give personal introductions for each episode in the series. This time, after the documentary part, Friedman sits down with a single opponent to debate the issues raised in the episode.