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Milton Friedman Research Paper
Brett Bolek
Mrs. VB-T
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October 21, 2013
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Free or Equal? Milton Friedman, one of the brightest minds of economics strongly advocated economic freedom over economic equality. In economically free societies, citizens all start their lives with equal opportunity when in economically equal societies, citizens all have equal success. Countries are better off with economic freedom rather than economic equality. Milton Friedman’s theory of economics was that complete economic freedom drives an economy to its fullest potential. By “complete economic freedom,” Friedman means that government needs to stay completely out of the way of the free market. When the government does not intervene, and put

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