You will either like his style or you won't - I loved it. Mr Larson writes at a fair pace and in an entertaining fashion. They then set prices as the supplier rather than us as the consumer. We think we make choices every day because we live (at least in most of the west) in a capitalist society but if you actually look at what we buy, the choice is between different brand names owned by a very few large companies. Both these are important in a market economy. One gives us freedom to do as we choose and the other gives freedom from being interfered with. He starts with definitions of freedom - both positive and negative freedoms. Larson takes the views of Milton Friedman, the esteemed economist, and dissects them in a context of the present day. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I reckon anyone interested in how the world works financially would get a lot out of it.
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