Capitalismo y libertad

How can we benefit from the promises of the Government and at the same time avoid the threat that it poses to individual freedom? In this now classic book, Milton Friedman presents the definitive compendium of his influential economic philosophy. The main objective of it is to analyze the role of competitive capitalism. That economic system, says Friedman, is a necessary condition for political freedom. But one question runs through these pages: what role should the government play in a free society, which relies primarily on the market to organize economic activity?