While Milton Friedman may be the best known of the Nobel ... Friedman’s long and active life fills a complicated portrait of how the impact of the Great Depression fired his economic imagination ...

THE best word to describe Lanny Ebenstein's life of Milton Friedman, finished just days before he died in November, is economical. Its subject would no doubt count this a virtue. He was a man who ...

IT IS VOGUISH to declare the ideas of Milton Friedman dead, whether you think ... policy as a field worthy of serious study. It is a portrait of a surprisingly heterodox economist, who was perhaps ...

In a video that’s gone viral, the late Milton Friedman correctly asserts about inflation that “consumers don’t produce it,” and “producers don’t produce it.” Only for Friedman to go ...

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 ...

Sure enough, one Republican member of the House advised Powell to read Milton Friedman — which one ... pieces of green paper bearing portraits of dead presidents — with bank deposits.

The transformation was a triumph particularly for 1976 Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, whose towering intellectual presence on President Nixon’s Gates Commission provided the ...