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.

Her chapter on Friedman’s relationship with the regime of the Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is similarly awkward. Friedman tried to deny there was much of a relationship: He simply ...

In 2002, three months after Milton Friedman turned ninety, a celebratory conference was convened at the school that had become synonymous with his ideas. Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal ...

Singer-songwriter and satirist Kinky Friedman has died at age 79. He passed way at his family’s Texas ranch near San Antonio. A statement posted to Friedman’s X account confirmed his death on ...

Friedman moved to the University of Chicago in 1932, to study for a master’s degree. It was the institution where he would spend much of his career—teaching there from 1946 until 1977.

In 1980, the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet replaced Chile’s constitution with a new charter employing the principles of famed American free-market economist Milton Friedman. Forty years ...

Milton Friedman. By Jennifer Burns. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 592 pages; $35. I T IS VOGUISH to declare the ideas of Milton Friedman dead, whether you think they deserve damnation or eulogy. In ...

Pablo Larraín's beautiful if faintly anemic horror-satire reimagines the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a world-weary 250-year-old bloodsucker. 'El Conde' review: Fangs for nothing ...

Friedman kept his hand on the scales of justice to the end. As the historian Gary Gerstle has argued, he was the architect of the neoliberal order, Reagan and Bill Clinton its carpenters.

Sept. 11, 2023, marks 50 years since Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet rose to power in a U.S.-backed coup and ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule. The coup ended a century and a half of ...

The government of Chile will launch a national search for over 1,000 people who went missing decades ago during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Chile's leftist president, Gabriel ...

It is 50 years since General Pinochet seized power in Chile, ushering in more than 16 years of military dictatorship. The Week takes a look at the events of the coup and Pinochet's long-lasting ...