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Essays in Public Policy No. 39
Copyright © 1993 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Material contained in this essay may be quoted with appropriate citation.
First printing, 1993
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Friedman, Milton, 1912-2006.
Why government is the problem / by Milton Friedman.
p. cm.— (Essays in public policy; no. 39)
ISBN-10: 0-8179-5442-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-5442-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. United States—Economic policy—1981- .
2. United States—Politics and government—1981-1989.
3. United States—Politics and government—1989-1993.
4. Free enterprise—United States
I. Title. II. Series.
HB106.8.F743 1993
338—dc20 93-6673