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.

Now more than ever, it's time to pay attention to Milton Friedman's advice for how to defeat the tyranny of the status quo. In the 1980s, Friedman's influence reached deep into the halls of power.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35. As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton ...

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.” ...

In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish. As host ...