Samuelson Friedman - The Battle Over the Free Market - Hardcover

Wapshott, Nicholas

 
9780393285185: Samuelson Friedman - The Battle Over the Free Market

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NewsweekSamuelson FriedmanThe Great ContractionA Monetary History of the United StatesCapitalism and FreedomIn Wapshott’s nimble hands, Samuelson and Friedman’s decades-long argument over how—or whether—to manage the economy becomes a window onto one of the longest periods of economic turmoil in the United States. As the soaring economy of the 1950s gave way to decades stalked by declining prosperity and "stagflation," it was a time when the theory and practice of economics became the preoccupation of politicians and the focus of national debate. It is an argument that continues today.

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Nicholas Wapshott's many books include biographies of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed, Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, and The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II. He lives in New York City.

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Keynes HayekKeynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern EconomicsThe New YorkerKeynes HayekNational ReviewNew York Times

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