Mere mention of the name Milton Friedman tends to conjure up not the actual image of the man—diminutive, bespectacled, slightly disheveled, enormously energetic—but the intellectual boogeyman ...

A Life of Milton Friedman Seeks the Nuance in His Free-Market Gospel The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

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.

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 ...