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Milton Friedman

The Last Conservative

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Milton Friedman

By: Jennifer Burns
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
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Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. Its no wonder the last decades of the twentieth century have been called the Age of Friedmanor that analysts have sought to hold him responsible for both the rising prosperity and the social ills of recent times. In Milton Friedman, the first full biography to employ archival sources, historian Jennifer Burns tells Friedmans extraordinary story with the nuance it deserves. She provides lucid and lively context for his groundbreaking work on everything from why dentists earn less than doctors to the vital importance of the money supply to inflation and the limits of government planning and stimulus. She traces Friedmans longstanding collaborations with women, including economist Anna Schwartz, as well as his complex relationships with powerful figures such as Fed Chair Arthur Burns and Treasury Secretary George Shultz. Most of all, Burns explores Friedmans key role in creating a new economic vision and a modern American conservatism. The result is a revelatory biography of Americas first neoliberaland perhaps its last great conservative. Americas Economic History Economics Professionals & Academics Social Scientists & Psychologists United States Capitalism Socialism Taxation Banking Liberalism Government Economic disparity Economic Inequality
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