![]() ![]() What could he possibly mean? Capitalism and Freedom I could scarcely believe that Friedman had the temerity to so brazenly criticize that most admirable and dynamic of world leaders, the young, charismatic prince of the free world, the prophet of a new tolerant age, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ![]() I can still recall, after half a century, the shock that this paragraph produced in me as I read it. ![]() I credit this book, more than any other work, with transforming my thinking about the meaning of freedom. This is the first paragraph of chapter one of Milton Friedman’s classic little book Capitalism and Freedom ( C&F), first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1962, and since republished numerous times unaltered. Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society.” In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.’ It is a striking sign of the temper of our times that the controversy about this passage centered on its origin and not on its content. I first read the following paragraph as a nerdy college student sometime between 19: ![]()
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