Milton Friedman, my teacher and friend, was born on this day in 1912. Widely understood to have been one of the foremost economists of all time, with a mastery of quantitative aspects of the study of ...

Milton Friedman played an important role in the creation of The Heartland Institute. In 1976, as a freshman student at The University of Chicago, I read Capitalism and Freedom. It was assigned reading ...

Milton Friedman On the C-SPAN Networks: Milton Friedman was a Senior Research Fellow for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University with 26 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35 As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton ...

Her research focuses on how capitalism and the power of the market have influenced the American Political Economy. Burns’ new book is Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.

A Life of Milton Friedman Seeks the Nuance in His Free-Market Gospel The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

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.

Buy on Bookshop Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pp., $35.00 And so Jennifer Burns’s biography of the economist Milton Friedman arrives at a moment when his legacy is increasingly questioned.

Dr. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford who studies American politics, economic thought and capitalism. She is the author of the forthcoming book “Milton Friedman: The Last ...

True, Milton Friedman's dream for the Federal Reserve was not fully manifested. He wanted it to use the nation's money supply, as opposed to interest rates, as its primary policy instrument.