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1980PGdocumentary

6.9/ 10(51 ratings)• TMDB

Financial Markets

Free to Choose

1980PGdocumentary

6.9/ 10(51 ratings)• TMDB

A compelling defense of free markets by Milton and Rose Friedman.

Financial Markets

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A compelling defense of free markets by Milton and Rose Friedman.

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Free to Choose is a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles. It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series: The Age of Uncertainty, by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Milton Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1976.

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