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Foreword Milton and Rose Friedman ....................................................vii Preface Robert D. McTeer, Jr . ........................................................ix Remarks Alan Greenspan .... ....................................................xi Introduction "Free to Choose" ................................................................... 3 Mark A. Wynne Session 1 The Toughest Battleground: Schools ..................................................21 Eric A. Hanushek The Theory and Practice of School Choice ...........................................37 Paul E. Peterson Session 2 The Property Rights Path to Sustainable Development ................................57 Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins Economic Freedom and Environmental Quality .........................................73 Richard L. Stroup Session 3 The Economic Burden of Taxation ...........................................93 William A. Niskanen The Transition to Private Market Provision of Elderly Entitlements .................99 Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving Session 4 Commerce, Culture and Diversity: Some Friedmanesque Themes in Trade and the Arts .......................................................123 Tyler Cowen Milton and Rose Friedman's "Free to Choose" and Its Impact in the Global Movement Toward Free Market Policy: 1979-2003 ...............................137 Peter J. Boettke Free to Choose in China ..........................................................153 Gregory C. Chow Session 5 Financial Markets and Economic Freedom .......................................175 Luigi Zingales Choosing Freely: The Friedmans' Influence on Economic and Social Policy ............................................................191 Allan H. Meltzer Friedman's Monetary Framework: Some Lessons ..... ..................................207 Ben S. Bemanke Session 6 What Have We Learned from the Measurement of Economic Freedom?......................217 James Gwartney and Robert Lawson Can the Tide Turn? ................................. .......................239 Raghuram G. Rajan Acknowledgments ..........................................................249 About the Contributors ........................................................251Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Free enterprise, Economic development, Industrial policy, Economic policy