Milton Friedman was an American economist and free-market capitalist known for his monetary theory, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics. Skip to content. News Markets Companies ...

By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen July 1, 2025 The late economist Milton Friedman has been called the father of the ...

Milton Friedman, the patron saint of free markets and a founder of the Nobel-adorned Chicago school of economics, took a very ...

While campaigning for President in 2020, Joe Biden declared, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore” in an interview with Politico.Yet 17 years after the economist’s death, many ...

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 ...

IT IS VOGUISH to declare the ideas of Milton Friedman dead, whether you think they deserve damnation or eulogy. In America, prominent Democrats spit out his name contemptuously. The most ...

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.

Another example of the contribution of women to Mr. Friedman’s work is his 1957 book, “A Theory of the Consumption Function,” one of his most important publications in technical economics.

Even to this day, Milton Friedman is the greatest economist of the last century: a masterful communicator, a prolific researcher, and a fearless thinker. He touched almost all areas of economics.

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.

Instead, policymakers would be wise to consult the teachings of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman: "you don't let prices rise, you destroy the system…which coordinates the activities of ...

Milton Friedman, the patron saint of free markets and a founder of the Nobel-adorned Chicago school of economics, took a very dim view of all tariffs — ours, theirs, anyone's. Writing in ...