4959. Capitalism and Freedom in the United States and in Brazil: rereading Milton Friedman’s classic with a Brazilian perspective
(Brasília: Diplomatizzando, 2025, 68 p.).
English version of the work 4597.
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Table of contents
Preliminary note: my own series of “revisited classics”
Revisiting a classic: Friedman reread six decades later
Introduction
Introduction
I. The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom
1. The Difficult Connection Between Political Freedom and Economic Freedom in Brazil
II. The Role of Government in a Free Society
2. The Weight of the State in a Partially Free Society
III. The Control of Money
3. Currency and Finance in a Highly Volatile Environment
IV. International Financial and Trade Arrangements
4. International Financial and Trade Agreements: The Long-Term Dependence
V. Fiscal Policy
5. Public Accounts: Rarely in Balance
VI. The Role of Government in Education
6. The Insufficient Role of the State in Education
VII. Capitalism and Discrimination
7. The Persistence of Slavery and Corporatism
VIII. Monopoly and the Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
8. Monopolies, Cartels, and State-Supervised Trade Unionism
IX. Occupational Licensure
9. The ultra-exacerbated regulatory bureaucracy
X. The Distribution of Income
10. The non-distribution of income: a persistent trend throughout history
XI. Social Welfare Measures
11. Social welfare policies: between focus and scope
XII. Alleviation of Poverty
12. Poverty reduction: a task never completed
XIII. Conclusion
13. Conclusion: what separates us from a developed society?
Note on the author
