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This ultra-famous 1962 hymn to unfettered private laissez faire economics was the "ur-text" of the Supply Siders and the Reagan "revolution". More than any other pop economist, Friedman was devoted to arguing against the inherent bureaucratic waste involved in soviet-style socialist dependence on centralized government planning but ignored the contribution to quality of life that regulation often obtains.