Milton Friedman was an American economist and free-market capitalist known for his monetary theory, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics.

W ell before Milton Friedman died in 2006 at 94, he was the rare economist who had become a household name. A longtime professor at the University of Chicago, he had been writing a column for ...

In context, Friedman wasn’t saying that the quantity theory of money had been unsuccessful and that there is no relationship between the money supply, broadly measured, and inflation.

In short, Friedman did not entirely remake economic policy. Yet he unquestionably remains a force to be reckoned with – someone whose ideals, at the very least, one might contrast to one’s own. On the ...

Milton Friedman, 1986. (Photo by ... Would it be correct to say that before the publication of Friedman’s A Theory of the Consumption Function ... Friedman’s global economic thought also ...

Even to this day, Milton Friedman is the greatest economist of the last century: a masterful communicator, a prolific researcher, and a fearless thinker. He touched almost all areas of economics.

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 ...

Jennifer Burns’s Nov. 23 Thursday Opinion column on Milton Friedman, “Milton Friedman, the last conservative,” provided a comprehensive and thoughtful review of economist Milton Friedman’s ...

Economics. Milton Friedman Was No Conservative A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.

The key course was Price Theory, which Friedman would later teach. Price theory at Chicago, Burns writes, was “an architecture of mind”: “Markets and prices … coordinated not just economic ...