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One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of
Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since
the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the
Century One of Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50 Best Books of
the 20th Century How can we benefit from the promise of government
while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this
classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of
an immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which
competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving
economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
First published in 1962, Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom is one
of the most significant works of economic theory ever written.
Enduring in its eminence and esteem, it has sold nearly a million
copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and
continues to inform economic thinking and policymaking around the
world. This new edition includes prefaces written by Friedman for
both the 1982 and 2002 reissues of the book, as well as a new
foreword by Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New
York Times editorial board.
Homelessness is a growing global problem that requires local
discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic,
it has noticeably become a collective concern. However, in recent
years, the official political discourse in many countries around
the world implies that poverty is a personal fault, and that if
people experience homelessness, it is because they have not tried
hard enough to secure shelter and livelihood. Â Although
architecture alone cannot solve the problem of homelessness, the
question arises: What and which roles can it play? Or, to be more
precise, how can architecture collaborate with other disciplines in
developing ways to permanently house those who do not have a home?
Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities seeks to
explore and understand a reality that involves the expertise of
national, regional, and city agencies, non-governmental
organizations, health-care fields, and academic disciplines.Â
Through scholarly essays, interviews, analyses of architectural
case studies, and research on the historical and current situation
in Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, São Paulo, San
Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo, this book unfolds different entry
points toward understanding homelessness and some of the many
related problems. The book is a polyphonic attempt to break
down this topic into as many parts as needed, so that the
specificities and complexities of one of the most urgent crises of
our time rise to the fore.
The story of the economists who championed the rise of free markets
and fundamentally reshaped the modern world. As the post-World War
II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of
economists gained in influence and power. Over time, their ideas
curbed governments, unleashed corporations and hastened
globalization. Their fundamental belief? That governments should
stop trying to manage the economy. Their guiding principle? That
markets would deliver steady growth and broad prosperity. But the
economists' hour failed to deliver on its premise. The
single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of
economic equality, of the health of liberal democracy, and of
future generations. Across the world, from both right and left, the
assumptions of the once-dominant school of free-market economic
thought are being challenged, as we count the costs as well as the
gains of its influence. Both accessible and authoritative,
exploring the impact of both ideas and individuals, Binyamin
Appelbaum's The Economists' Hour provides both a reckoning with the
past and a call for a different future.
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