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The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey
Author(s): David R. Henderson (Author)
- Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
- Publication Date: 24 Sept. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 0130621129
- ISBN-13: 9780130621122
Book Description
In The Joy of Freedom, David R. Henderson makes the most powerful case for free markets since Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose. Henderson brings the free market to life through stories of those it has liberated – and demolishes the conventional justifications for government’s roles in environmental regulation, education, social security, and healthcare.
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In The Joy of Freedom, David R. Henderson shines a light on freedom at work in every corner of human life, making the most powerful case for free markets since Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose. Along the way, he demolishes the conventional “wisdom” that has justified government’s role in environmental regulation, education, social security, and healthcare; and shows once and for all why government programs perpetuate poverty instead of eliminating it.
Forget the “dismal science”- Economist Henderson writes with passion about the joyous science. You will always know where he stands- with freedom, and against tyranny-in any guise. Free and healthy, at half the costHow deregulation and the Internet can make healthcare more competitive-and less expensiveNature’s best friend- property rights How property rights are protecting wildlife, from elephants to hawksInterviewing Ralph NaderNader defends regulations that kill thousands of people every yearGovernments promote racism and free markets combat itSome fascinating stories on South Africa, the United States, and Schindler’s ListBeyond public schools- education in a free societyThe 10 most important things you’ve learnedFree markets- empowering the poor, worldwideProperty ownership- the best solution for abolishing hunger and poverty
The world’s most powerful idea- for real joy, you need real freedom.
The strongest arguments for free markets since Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose
A personal manifesto from one of the world’s leading economists
How freedom unleashes extraordinary improvements in every area of human society
The Joy of Freedom- An Economist’s Odyssey brings free market economics to life through stories of those who have discovered it in their own lives. David R. Henderson, one of the world’s most vigorous advocates of free markets, celebrates those in American society-and around the world-who are fighting to get the government off their backs.
No writer has more masterfully illustrated the centrality of freedom and enlightened self-interest to a well-run economyand a good society. Henderson demonstrates the powerand the potentialof free markets to improve the environment, education, health, community, culture, and every other aspect of life that matters. This plain-speaking book crystallizes the inherent contradictions between government and freedom, showing why even the most well-intentioned governments can deliver nothing but disaster.
For those who already believe in free markets, this book offers powerful ammunition; for those who are skeptical, it will be a revelation. “The Joy of Freedom is a quasi-autobiographical clarion call for a free society. It is passionate and eloquent, yet at the same time, thoughtful, informed, and profound. A splendid statement of the moral case for a free society, at the same time it is an informed and comprehensive survey of its practical virtues and of the harm done by widespread government intervention. “Milton Friedman
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Nobel Laureate”Economics, like politics, has its ‘great communicators.’ David R. Henderson is one of them. A superb lesson from one of the more masterly of our economic teachers.” Amity Shlaes,
Columnist on Political Economy, The Financial Times”A dazzling intellectual memoir, a high-level lesson in market economics, a terrific read. “Dan Seligman,
Forbes magazine “A can’t-put-it-down read that engages you in story and events…. Here economic principles are not dry theories; they are events in Henderson’s life. And we come to root for him as he struggles to see through one economic commonplace after another.”Shelby Steele,
author of A Dream Deferred- The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
About the Author
DR. DAVID R. HENDERSON is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, and Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal and Fortune. In 1984, he won the Mencken award for investigative journalism for his first Fortune article, “The Myth of MITI.” Formerly a monthly columnist for Red Herring, Henderson has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Henderson was previously senior economist for health and energy with President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. He has testified against the draft before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on taxes before the House Ways and Means Committee, and on health policy before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. In the late 1970s, Henderson spoke on college campuses and on television against a renewal of military conscription.
Born and raised in Canada, Henderson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Winnipeg in 1970 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.
