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Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video
The first episode of Milton Friedman's 1980 Free To Choose series, on how markets and voluntary exchange organize economic activity and the price system. It includes visits to Hong Kong, the U.S. and Scotland and a panel discussion with critics.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters say it made market economics click for them and find it an interesting documentary relevant to welfare and UBI debates.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Free To Choose Network
- Topic
- free market economics
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It took me a long time to grasp market economics. I knew it worked somehow but I didn't quite understand why. What really made it click was Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" TV series[0]. [0] [VIDEO]
olalonde on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?That is also a fantastic comparison point. The same ideal is part of the idea behind UBI replacing the social welfare bureaucracy. I found this documentary "Freedom to choose" to be really interesting: [VIDEO]
maerF0x0 on Hacker News · 2024-08
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