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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Hardcover)
By Jennifer Burns
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An Economist Best Book of | One of The New York Times’ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg | Finalist for the Hayek Book Prize
“Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, there’s a lot to learn from this book. More than a biography of one controversial person, it’s an intellectual history of twentieth-century economic thought.” —Greg Rosalesky, NPR’s Planet Money
The first full biography of America’s most renowned economist.
Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. It’s no wonder the last decades of the twentieth century have b
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Paperback)
By Jennifer Burns
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An Economist Best Book of | One of The New York Times’ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg | Finalist for the Hayek Book Prize
“Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, there’s a lot to learn from this book. More than a biography of one controversial person, it’s an intellectual history of twentieth-century economic thought.” —Greg Rosalesky, NPR’s Planet Money
The first full biography of America’s most renowned economist.
Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. It’s no wonder the last decades of the twentieth century have been
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Book Review: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
Her book is by no means a hagiography. At various points, she criticizes Friedman, sometimes unfairly. She’s also a little unfair to his wife, Rose Friedman, an economist in her own right. But that makes Burns’s many positive evaluations of Milton’s work all the more credible.
Although she is, as noted, a historian and not an economist, and sometimes makes little slips in her economic exposition, her big-picture understanding of economics is impressive, especially on one of the toughest issues to understand: monetary policy. Indeed, she lays out the fact that the Federal Reserve does not directly control interest rates better than many economists I’ve read.
Early intellectual life / One of the most impressive aspects of the book is Burns’s narrative about Friedman’s early attempts to, as we said in the s and s, “find himself.” Where did he fit in economics? On the one hand, some of the strongest influencers of his thinking