Free to Choose

这并不是一本让人读起来舒服的经济学入门书，但它之所以被反复提起，恰恰在于它敢于把自由市场当作一种道德立场来论证，而非仅仅计算效率。弗里德曼最锋利的地方，是逼读者承认：天赋的不平等与财产的不平等同出一源，若我们为前者辩护，便没有理由为后者动怒；而“结果平等”的口号，往往以扩张权力为代价，悄悄收走个人的自由。它适合那些愿意被冒犯的读者——书中把某种政权与极权相提并论、以香港作对比的段落，足以激起强烈反弹，也正因如此，它更像一份立场鲜明的“自由宣言”，而非四平八稳的分析。想听温和中庸之论的人或许会失望，但把它当作一次对自由与平等根本冲突的逼问，反而会读到东西。

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.