Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all? That's part of the conversation I had with today's guest, Stanford historian Jennifer Burns, who has written a masterful and definitive ...
American Enterprise Institute: Milton Friedman, the Last Conservative: A Book Event with Jennifer Burns
On December 6, AEI’s Director of Domestic Policy Studies Matthew Continetti welcomed Stanford University’s Dr. Jennifer Burns to discuss her new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Milton ...
In 2002, three months after Milton Friedman turned ninety, a celebratory conference was convened at the school that had become synonymous with his ideas. Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal ...
Burns has written with one kind of fairness in mind. But a more critical look at Friedman’s legacy could have been fair, too. Friedman’s statue casts a long shadow, and a different vantage would have ...
American Enterprise Institute: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative: My Long-Read Q&A with Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, right alongside John Maynard Keynes. His work pushed economic thought toward free markets in the 1970s and 1980s. His ...
Christian Science Monitor: Milton Friedman left a complex legacy, says his biographer
Well before Milton Friedman died in 2006 at 94, he was the rare economist who had become a household name. A longtime professor at the University of Chicago, he had been writing a column for Newsweek ...
‘When did Milton Friedman die and become king?” asked presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019. Verbal incapacity aside—presumably he meant to ask who died and made Friedman king—Mr. Biden’s use of ...