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Jun 28, 2024 · The Collected Works of Milton Friedman website contains more than 1,500 digital items by and about economist, Nobel Prize winner, and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman. The site features hundreds of Friedman's articles, speeches, lectures, television appearances, and more.
Jun 28, 2024 · Fans of economist Milton Friedman—of whom I’m one—should count themselves lucky that Stanford historian Jennifer Burns has written a detailed biography of him. Based on intensive archival research that only a patient, first‐ rate historian can do, she covers his intellectual life in its various stages from his time in high school to his ...
1 day ago · Milton Friedman is widely considered the intellectual father of the school choice movement. While Friedman deserves much credit, Father Virgil Blum stands out as an influential figure in the nascent school choice movement. Using archival research, this paper examines Blum’s contributions to the movement. From his 1954 doctoral dissertation ...
Jun 29, 2024 · In his and Rose’s autobiography, Two Lucky People, Milton wrote that early in World War II, when he was an economist at the US Treasury, he wrote an analysis that was “thoroughly Keynesian.” In my review of that book, I noted my disappointment that he didn’t tell the reader how and why his views changed.
Jun 27, 2024 · Fans of economist Milton Friedman—of whom I’m one—should count themselves lucky that Stanford historian Jennifer Burns has written a detailed biography of him.
Jul 1, 2024 · Milton Friedman’s ideas improved not just America but the world. Paul Volcker followed Friedman’s advice and tightened the US money supply in 1979 to address double-digit inflation. When...
Jun 28, 2024 · Author of Free to choose, A Theory of the Consumption Function, Price theory, Capitalism and freedom, Essays in positive economics, A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960, Price theory, A program for monetary stability.
