GUIDE TO A RADICAL CAPITALISM

Third edition, 2014

David Friedman

This book is dedicated to

Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
Robert A. Heinlein,

from whom I learned

and to
Robert M. Schuchman,
who might have written it better

Capitalism is the best. It’s free enterprise. Barter. Gimbels, if I get really rank with the clerk, ‘Well I don’t like this’, how I can resolve it? If it really gets ridiculous, I go, ‘Frig it, man, I walk.’ What can this guy do at Gimbels, even if he was the president of Gimbels? He can always reject me from that store, but I can always go to Macy’s. He can’t really hurt me. Communism is like one big phone company. Government control, man. And if I get too rank with that phone company, where can I go? I’ll end up like a schmuck with a dixie cup on a thread.

LENNY BRUCE

Why can’t you see?
We just want to be free
To have our homes and families
And live our lives as we please.

DANA ROHRABACHER
WEST COAST LIBERTARIAN TROUBADOUR
[And, much later, Republican Congressman]