Published: December 11, 2019
Milton Friedman investigates the myth that in free-market capitalism the rich benefit at the expense of the poor. The truth is that wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary person has been able to attain levels of living never before dreamed of. Nowhere have the rich gotten richer and the poor gotten poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.
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