Write a 3- to 5-page essay providing a point and counterpoint discussion about the defenders and critics of the status quo. Your essay should highlight and analyze three or more major points of disagreement between the two sides, and provide examples from the authors to support your analysis. Use the Learning Resources and any other scholarly literature of your choice to support your analysis.
CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM
40th Anniversary Edition
With a new Preface by the Author
MILTON FRIEDMAN
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ROSE D. FRIEDMAN
2002
[1962]
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
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CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM
thesis of this chapter is that such a view is a delusion, that there is an intimate connection between economics and politics, that only certain combinations of political and economic arrangements are possible, and that in particular, a society which is socialist cannot also be democ