This is an autobiographical account of the lives and influence of economist Milton Friedman and his wife Rose, who sought to change intellectual opinion in the USA by their belief in personal freedom. It covers their involvement with world leaders and important public policy issues. Through their books and television programmes, and Milton's columns in "Newsweek", the Friedmans' views have been influential, widely debated and gradually accepted. When "Capitalism and Freedom" was published in 1962, it was ignored by the national media. By contrast, "Free to Choose", published the year Ronald Reagan was elected, became a bestseller. Together the Friedmans experienced many of the major events that have shaped the history of the modern world - from the Great Depression to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Milton Friedman served as unofficial adviser to Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Apart from providing an account of two productive careers, the book is laced with entertaining details of life on the academic and ideological high wire.

米爾頓·弗裏德曼，20世紀最具影響力的經濟學傢。由於創立瞭貨幣主義理論，提齣瞭永久性收入假說，他於1976年獲得諾貝爾經濟學奬。1988年獲得美國國傢科學奬章與美國總統自由勛章。

他曾先後在美國芝加哥大學等多所院校任教，是美國芝加哥學派的領袖，一直遵循芝加哥學派的傳統，主張經濟自由主義，被稱為反凱恩斯主義的先鋒。

在公共政策領域中，他曾經擔任過美國總統候選人巴裏·戈德華特及尼剋鬆總統與裏根總統的非正式顧問。

重要著作：《實證經濟學論文集》；《消費函數理論》；《資本主義與自由》；《價格理論：初稿》；與施瓦茨閤著《美國貨幣史· 1867∽1960年》。他的大多學術著作對凱恩斯經濟理論提齣瞭相反觀點，反對政府乾預經濟，是弗裏德曼經濟學理論的核心所在。

弗裏德曼現年91歲，依然健在，已從美國芝加哥大學退休，但仍被經濟學界尊為泰鬥。

羅斯·弗裏德曼，經濟學傢，佩珀代因大學名譽博士，與丈夫米爾頓·弗裏德曼閤著瞭《自由選擇》和《現狀的專製》等。