Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Electronic data is machine generated. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
Foreword
Milton and Rose Friedman ....................................................vii
Preface
Robert D. McTeer, Jr . ........................................................ix
Remarks
Alan Greenspan .... ....................................................xi
Introduction
"Free to Choose" ................................................................... 3
Mark A. Wynne
Session 1
The Toughest Battleground: Schools ..................................................21
Eric A. Hanushek
The Theory and Practice of School Choice ...........................................37
Paul E. Peterson
Session 2
The Property Rights Path to Sustainable Development ................................57
Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
Economic Freedom and Environmental Quality .........................................73
Richard L. Stroup
Session 3
The Economic Burden of Taxation ...........................................93
William A. Niskanen
The Transition to Private Market Provision of Elderly Entitlements .................99
Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving
Session 4
Commerce, Culture and Diversity: Some Friedmanesque
Themes in Trade and the Arts .......................................................123
Tyler Cowen
Milton and Rose Friedman's "Free to Choose" and Its Impact in the
Global Movement Toward Free Market Policy: 1979-2003 ...............................137
Peter J. Boettke
Free to Choose in China ..........................................................153
Gregory C. Chow
Session 5
Financial Markets and Economic Freedom .......................................175
Luigi Zingales
Choosing Freely: The Friedmans' Influence on Economic
and Social Policy ............................................................191
Allan H. Meltzer
Friedman's Monetary Framework: Some Lessons ..... ..................................207
Ben S. Bemanke
Session 6
What Have We Learned from the Measurement of Economic Freedom?......................217
James Gwartney and Robert Lawson
Can the Tide Turn? ................................. .......................239
Raghuram G. Rajan
Acknowledgments ..........................................................249
About the Contributors ........................................................251
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Free enterprise, Economic development, Industrial policy, Economic policy