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Nobel Prize-winner Friedman demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system, and explains what the present monetary system in the US means for individual Americans as well as for the global economy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) (Booknews )
From the Micronesian Yap islands' 12-foot stone "coins" to today's paper currencies backed only by fiat, Nobel-laureate economist Friedman ( Free to Choose ) here examines anomalies of world monetary history, including the effect of successive 19th-century gold ore discoveries and refining improvements on U.S. and British tender. He traces American currency's long, contentious gold-silver bimetalist saga, marked by the so-called Congressional coinage "crime of 1873" and ending with William Jennings Bryan's unsuccessful "Cross of Gold" presidential campaign in 1896. Friedman cites harsh lessons from postwar hyperinflation in many countries and declares that Roosevelt's 1933 silver-buying program may have skewed China's silver-based economy toward eventual communism. Uncontrolled money growth is the cause of inflation, the author stresses, and only monetary reform, despite undesirable side effects like unemployment, can cure it. Abstruse, theoretical and chiefly for the initiate, the book recycles parts of earlier works by Friedman, who himself suggests here that the general reader might wish to skip a particularly challenging chapter.
(Publishers Weekly )
In this latest work, Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedman examines the role of money backed by gold and silver and our current world of fiat backed by faith. After an initial restatement of the essence of his monetary views, Friedman examines the historical impact of bimetallism in the United States and elsewhere. He devotes the remainder of the book to the principles and problems of modern money unlinked to any commodity. Often iconoclastic yet always persuasive, whatever Friedman has to say about money should always be read. Highly recommended for college and university libraries.
- Richard C. Schiming, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
(Library Journal )
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.
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书很小巧，纸张和字体看着不错。不过因为是进口书籍，好贵呀，标价是14.95美元。总体感觉不错。就是价钱高。
书很小很轻，方便阅读。弗里德曼是个很有学问又很幽默的老头。
This book from Milton Friedman is the first one I read from him, although I've watched a lot of videos at youtube and other online channels with him. The monetary things are explained in his simple and clear style and while reading I get insights about things that were very messed up in my head before that. Highly recommend for general understanding of the problems of today's society like inflation, goverment regulations and policies and money. There are also some description of how the FED and the other central banks function, as well as general explanation of what money are. There are 2-3 chapters that are targeted at more experienced economists with some math formulas and statistics but in general the book is not scientific and is contributing to each mind that reads it.
This book should be required reading in all college level civics, political science and economics classes. It is exceptionally well written in clear, lucid language that anyone can understand. Dr. Friedman presents detailed analysis with extensive facts and examples to explain the concepts and conclusions that he describes. It clarifies the activities of our government and the impact of those activities including the financial intricacies that government officials never reveal. He pinpoints the problems we have seen and see unfolding now and explains what is going to be the ultimate result if corrective action is not taken now. He also explains how long it will take before our country can recover.
Milton Friedman covers a number of interesting episodes of monetary history in this book. The episode about the bimetallic money system the U.S. had until the 1870s is really fascinating. Also the discussion of inflation and the incentive the government may have to use inflation to finance spending is very relevant to our current day problems of growing national debt and federal budget deficit. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about money and its history.
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