March 22, 2024 - Investment decision makers will derive both pleasure and professional enrichment from Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.

March 6, 2024 - In this episode, Acton director of marketing and communications Eric Kohn speaks to Jennifer Burns, author of a new biography, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. In this important contribution to understanding Friedman’s legacy, Burns explores the great economist’s life, ideas, and ...

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March 26, 2024 - Historian and author Jennifer Burns discusses the first full biography of America’s most renowned economist. Watch event video.

June 13, 2024 - "Friedman wasn’t a contrarian, but a firm believer in following the facts wherever they led. This 'positive economics' approach would underpi ...

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Burns, author of a much-admired biography of Ayn Rand, will discuss her new biography of Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century.

Burns (history, Stanford Univ.; Goddess of the Market) focuses her latest book on Milton Friedman (1912–2006), one of the 20th century’s most influential economists. She utilizes extensive archival sources to paint a picture of the 1976 Nobel Prize winner.

November 18, 2023 - Jennifer Burns, a Stanford historian, sets out to make the case in her intriguing biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative that Friedman’s legacy cannot be shaken so easily. As she points out, some of his ideas—­the volunteer army, school choice—­have been adopted as policy; ...

August 30, 2019 - Only a short time ago, the prediction that Professor Milton Friedman would receive the Nobel Prize in economics would have been greeted by a broad spectrum of reactions ranging from horrified impossibility to an unemotional expression of obvious inevitability.

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