April 8, 2024 - Stanford University Professor Jennifer Burns discusses the life and legacy of American economist Milton Friedman.

November 21, 2023 - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35 As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new

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January 13, 2024 - Krithika Varagur on “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative,” a biography of the economist by the Stanford historian Jennifer Burns.

November 27, 2023 - Milton Friedman’s advice on the burning economic question of the 1970s—inflation—was ignored by President Nixon and his Fed chair.

January 18, 2024 - When tasked with reviewing Jennifer Burns’ Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, I was unaware that I was going to read one of the most engaging works of intellectual history I have ever encountered. It is even more surprising because I am not an economist nor do I work in finance.

November 17, 2024 - When Milton Friedman died in 2006 I wrote a blog post crediting him as an 'enormous influence on my life'. I said back then that although few people call themselves 'Friedmanites', for many - including me - his writings guided us to a broader set of arguments and influences.

February 7, 2024 - “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” declared President Biden in 2020, as the historian Jennifer Burns reminds us in Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.

Reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond | Stanford University historian Jennifer Burns has written a definitive biography of economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006). It is a most impressive work. The book is the product of Burns’s efforts to come to know and understand Milton Friedman and his role in ...

March 6, 2024 - Jennifer Burns’s biography, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, will be the standard reference for anyone wanting to dive deeply into the life of the great economist and the world in which he flourished.

March 9, 2017 - Answer (1 of 15): He was a right-libertarian. Conservatives and libertarians seem to like him more then liberals/leftists.

August 13, 2013 - Milton Friedman, “who used to be the ultimate avatar of conservative economics, has essentially disappeared from right-wing discourse”. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

August 9, 2019 - Milton Friedman is the Godfather of American conservative libertarianism. He was, at a time when it was deeply unfashionable in official circles, a fierce critic of Keynesian economics. He was a leader of the second generation of libertarian economists to come out of the University of Chicago.

March 14, 2012 - Conservatives love Milton Friedman. But lately they've attacked Ben Bernanke for following Friedman's advice. What gives?

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July 31, 2012 - One hundred years after his birth, Milton Friedman's economic views are paid lip service by those who love him.

November 27, 2006 - Milton Friedman: The Great Conservative Partisan, by Thomas I. Palley: Milton Friedman died on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Without doubt, Friedman was one of the most influential (perhaps the most influential) economists of the second half of the twentieth century.

May 16, 2024 - Friedman was the favorite economist of many conservatives, including Ronald Reagan. Friedman was an early advocate of free choice in education, such that parents could spend their school tax dollars on the school of their choice.[2] ... Milton Friedman said, "Roosevelt's policies were very ...