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Milton Friedman. It’s not often that someone's own name becomes an institution in their lifetime. But the economist Milton Friedman, who died Thursday at the age of 94, lived such a long ...
While campaigning for President in 2020, Joe Biden declared, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore” in an interview with Politico. Yet 17 years after the economist’s death ...
As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton Friedman, "Many aspects of our contemporary world that today seem commonplace have their origins in one ...
I write about education from the inside out. Free-market economists Milton and Rose Friedman launched the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice back in 1996, they planned for the day when ...
During this symposium on economist Milton Friedman, James Gwartney discussed Mr. Friedman’s views on the effect private property has on the economy. Professor Gwartney is a co-author of the ...
C-SPAN's podcast "The Weekly" presents a special two-parter on Milton Friedman. In support of C-SPAN's series "Books that Shaped America" and the upcoming episode on "Free to Choose," "The Weekly ...
William McGurn gives proper credit to Milton Friedman for the wave of states enacting universal school choice policies (“Milton Friedman’s Revolution,” April 4). Friedman wasn’t the only ...
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.
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 ...