The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

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 ...

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 of ...

In a controversial 2009 essay for The New York Times Magazine, liberal economist Paul Krugman drew a stark line between “freshwater” and “saltwater” academic institutions: the latter had clustered in ...

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pp., $27.73) Jennifer Burns’s biography, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, will be the standard ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Spring 2024 issue of The Independent Review. Stanford University historian Jennifer Burns has written a definitive biography of economist Milton Friedman ...