The idea that Milton Friedman might have espoused classical liberal and free market ideas from intellectual honesty and a sincere belief that such a free society was the best institutional environment ...

Milton Friedman’s essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits,” was published in the New York Times 50 years ago. The piece remains as polarizing today as it was ...

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was at once an accomplished academic economist, an adviser to U.S. presidents and cabinet officials, and a widely read columnist. He won the Nobel Prize in 1976.

Ad Policy. Milton Friedman, 1986. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) Milton Friedman is widely regarded as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.

As Jennifer Burns’s new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, demonstrates, his ideas underlay more than establishment conservatism.

Ryssdal: I want to talk about Milton Friedman, as you call him in the book, “the political figurehead.”His alignment with Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan. And now you progress through the ...

Dr. Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics, is a recognized leader of the conservative Chicago School of Economics, shown Nov. 29, 1976.

In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish.As host Peter Robinson rattled off the Cabinet list, Friedman gave a blunt ...

Main Street: If Joe Biden intends to outcompete Beijing, surely Milton Friedman still offers a more compelling model than simply copying the government-directed approach of Xi Jinping. Images: AP ...

In writing her new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns ...

If you’ve been tuning in for one of 2023’s hottest shows — Federal Reserve press briefings — you may have noticed an oft-repeated phrase on the Fed chair’s lips: “long and variable lag.” ...