Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, who died this week at the age of 94, was probably the strongest inspiration for that joke. His love of the benefits of free markets unfettered by ...

— Milton Friedman Decades ago, the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman stated bluntly that open borders and a welfare state are mutually exclusive. You can pick one. Not both.

Back in 1970, the economist Milton Friedman famously argued that businesses have a single responsibility: to increase profit. For decades, the so-called “Friedman doctrine” amounted to dogma ...

Elon Musk shared a clip of the late free trade economist Milton Friedman on Monday in a veiled shot at President Donald Trump and his market-tanking tariff crusade. The Tesla CEO, whose company ...