Free to Choose is for one thing a fascinating time capsule and worth watching for that reason alone. But this was released in 1980, on the cusp of Reagan's presidency and a major turning point in America. Want to learn about Reaganomics?
Then watch this because it's Friedman's sinister ideas that fueled that mess which has affected us to this day.
No doubt Friedman was incredibly intelligent, but here you can see how he outright ignores facts in order to push his ideas about his glorious free market which he believes will solve every social I'll, despite the glaring facts to the contrary.
Each episode begins with Friedman traveling to different places around the world and touting his free market ideaology and the second half of the show is Friedman back at the University of Chicago, where so many horrible things have come out of their School of Economics, and he debates his theories with a number of people across the political spectrum. The discussions are intelligent and engrossing and at times even surreal, such as when "businessman" Don Rumsfeld insists on morals and ethics and asks where is the humanity in Friedman's ideas. You can't make this up.
An interesting exercise while watching this is comparing the situation we're in now with how Friedman and the others said it would be.
Then watch this because it's Friedman's sinister ideas that fueled that mess which has affected us to this day.
No doubt Friedman was incredibly intelligent, but here you can see how he outright ignores facts in order to push his ideas about his glorious free market which he believes will solve every social I'll, despite the glaring facts to the contrary.
Each episode begins with Friedman traveling to different places around the world and touting his free market ideaology and the second half of the show is Friedman back at the University of Chicago, where so many horrible things have come out of their School of Economics, and he debates his theories with a number of people across the political spectrum. The discussions are intelligent and engrossing and at times even surreal, such as when "businessman" Don Rumsfeld insists on morals and ethics and asks where is the humanity in Friedman's ideas. You can't make this up.
An interesting exercise while watching this is comparing the situation we're in now with how Friedman and the others said it would be.