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 ...

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 ...

Profile. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976, Milton Friedman first aspired to become an insurance actuary. Despite his early love of mathematics, he failed several exams, however.

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 ...