People having spirited discussions and debates, and no called the other a "Nazi" or a "facist". My God this was refreshing.

Props for uploading the full series to KZfaq for free!

I wish I would've watched this as a child - I was very young - but think it should be viewed in every high school econ class.

Every single teenager should watch these videos. The world could be saved thus.

I almost cry that i grew up not knowing about him, and right after i cared about economics, he already passed away.

Great stuff. It's interesting to see the almost universal pushback Milton gets from the debaters, but then one has to remember the time - the stagflation era of the late 70s. With high inflation and interest rates, the oil shocks, and the decline of US auto and other heavy industry, the Carter years were a time of widespread malaise. This was before the huge high technology innovation waves, the global shipping revolution, the rise of China as an industrial powerhouse, the collapse of the Soviet Union and other communist states, and the broad shifts of thinking that Reagan and Thatcher ushered in - generally lower taxes and freer trade - that helped transform wealth and standards of living around the world. It's good that Milton got to live long enough to see that shift around the world, even though it never went far enough. Sadly we seem to be regressing in recent years.

It is very interesting and at the same time, it is refreshing to see people who have very different ideas with different interests come together and debate about a topic. Putting forward counter opinions without sounds like a narcissist or whatever. These kinds of decent debates definitely look alien to the current generation. Thank you

Dr. Friedman was right on the "money," so to speak. LOL I wish that he were still around today!

50 years later and $30 Trillion in debt later....here we are......governments overspending to their heart's content at the expense of their citizens. There's no free lunch...either inflation comes and bites you in the rear or end up with ever increased tax impositions, or both!

I'm really love to listening to professor Friedman very much I can listening to him all day.

Every day that goes by, and the perverse growth of the U.S. government, Milton Friedman looks more and more like a genius and soothsayer.

Thank you so much for uploading the high quality version of this series in their entirety! Long live Friedman’s concepts!

He was right. Our OHIP system in Ontario is a disaster. Used emergency in hospital two times and both times with my small son. First time he was about 4 years old. Waiting line was several hours for a crying little kid. Second time he was a teenager, same story came around 9 PM and doctor helped him around 2 AM.

You can not find this similar on tv these days. That is why I love KZfaq

Thank you for these gems... 10 hrs of Milton does not make my wife a happy camper, good dr will simply have to wait.

Besides deep thoughts, Milton Friedman, mentions some common facts we face in our ordinary lives, but we are not aware of. I heard the thought "Give me freedom or give me death" a long time ago and keep on standing for it, even more intensively now than before.

At the 52 minute mark, the socialist starts talking about monopolies and control by them in a capitalist society and how they control the people but he fails to realize that in every socialist society there is NO competition in industries and almost all suppliers of goods/services have monopolies run by the government. Normally run by the government very inefficiently and that is why we see the mass exodus from socialist countries into capitalistic countries and not the other way around. Friedman is many times misunderstood and restates many times that he is not for the absence of a government, but for limited government. Government is there for third party redresses not to tell the people what they should buy and the business what to sell. The most amazing part of all of this is these conversations were happening 40 years ago and now we are seeing the same arguments toward socialism all over again by a new generation of self-righteous, grandeous thinkers who think THEIR brand of socialism will work just because they others did it wrong. Theft(redistribution of wealth) by force is tyranny. We went to war against England because of a tax of 2% on TEA. Biden wants to increase taxes by 40% or more and some want people to quit complaining!!! They obviously don't care to look at history.

Wish all young people would watch this series. What a different place earth might be. Thx for uploading Free to Choose!

Спасибо, что разместили эти фильмы, они бесценны.

Was a basic ass liberal but now im more of a libertarian even tho these are old i enjoy these, wished someone would come along and do a present day free to choose

The originals, thank you.

They need to bring back ideal debates not for ratings but for intellectual and knowledge driven ends

Thank you for posting these films , they’re priceless.

I did not see it when it was produced, but I imagine that "Free To Choose" was to the subject of economics what "Cosmos" and "The Day The Universe Changed" was to science and history.

Thank you for sharing, great film and discussion.

Tough times create tough people!

Thank you for making this available to watch..! ❤🇺🇸❤

Pure masterpiece

Although the demographics of the participants of the discussion in the video are dated, the concepts and importance are timeless.

You could imagine the outrage now if this was aired with men carving ivory?

Poor Hong Kong. Since 1997 under the CCP

Nothing will ever change.

I wish this had been uploaded in its original aspect ratio. I feel like I am ducking my head all the time with this!

Quality content and honest

25:00 right from the chickens AAAAAASS there can be no question

51:05 "whatever kind of car i buy i still get dirty air" lol did Bob Galvin say that? it felt like they ignored him.

Today, their grand children can't imagine not having the ability to call Grub-hub for meals delivered while they waste away in their parents basement. They take everything for granted, as though such has always been and always will be. Wilfully opting themselves into a life many of their ancestors fled.

That tomato slice looked really good. 😋

unbelievable how up to date the debates are not 40 years later yet the fed balance sheet explodes and we get stimulus checks ... and singapore just overtook hong kong

The people debating Milton at the end are like characters from Atlas Shrugged

This guy loved people.

Why is the intro music so good!?

You don't take society today and build on it. If they mess up a floor building a building you don't build on top and hope for the best you tear that floor down and build it again

I just got a master's in Economics

I wish I could have asked him for his thoughts on UBI.

Damn only 273 likes should be way more

This is the future

Without the "commons" nothing is possible. Without some trust, goodwill and honesty, there is no "business". "Equal freedom of opportunity" will always be seen thru the barrel of a gun.

Please please please please please please translate this entire series in the various languages of India and have it broadcast there. I implore you!

i feel like the motorola ceo was not there on this debate. i guess thats why they went broke lol.

Great economist, thanks for posting

For us this is History for many people this SCHOULD be Reality but. today the most Emigrats think that they can have the same standards of life like if they have been one of thouse who built the wealth

#FreeHongKong

Tôi muốn tự do ở Việt Nam!

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Is his point on pollution still valid?

28:00

Deeply disagree with most of what Friedman believes, and I think history has shown he was all too willing to be an ally with actual fascists or neoconfederates, but I still appreciate the program especially the second half debate portion. Nostalgia for when tv at least attempted to inform the public. Missed out on not having a Friedman/Harrington public affairs show, that would have been dynamite.

"As a friend of mine, Karl Marx said of capitalism" lol. Michael Harrington truly gave the game away there. THe funny thing is this was before communism collapsed in Europe. There is no economic system that so failed like what Marx had proposed. Literally none.

2024 the debt (1 Trillion every 100 days), and the market continue to rise

I'm offended.

I don't once hear this guy complain about so called "right to work" laws that say people can't band together and decide what their labor is worth. That too, is government intervention.

Liberals- “some people should pay less for the pencil than others, and some people should get pencils for free. Anyone with over a million dollars should only be able to purchase half sized pencils for a higher price. Ugh I’m such a good person!”

Now the HK is losing its economic potential by the raise of free-market (?) of China, what an ironic.

Search "William Cavanaugh, 'What Do I Want? Augustine and Milton Friedman on Freedom of Choice' " for a rich response to Friedman's take on freedom and free markets.