In a video that’s gone viral, the late Milton Friedman correctly asserts about inflation that “consumers don’t produce it,” and “producers don’t produce it.” Only for Friedman to go ...

Jennifer Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford University and the author of “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative,” from which this essay is excerpted. Rumpled and ...

Milton Friedman’s ideas improved not just America but the world. Paul Volcker followed Friedman’s advice and tightened the US money supply in 1979 to address double-digit inflation.

MILTON FRIEDMAN: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns In writing her new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful ...

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 ...