Discover how Milton Friedman reshaped economic thought with monetarism and free-market principles, influencing policies from Ronald Reagan to Margaret Thatcher.

Today’s Republicans seem to have forgotten Friedman’s lesson in the market-distorting and economy-threatening effects of business-government collusion.

Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke renewed his criticism of Vice President JD Vance on Monday, invoking his mentor Milton ...

Kelton’s MMT is as old as money simply because as long as money has existed, people have been trying to get something with it ...

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 has ...

"Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?" Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Stanford historian Jennifer Burns during a live taping of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie ...

In April this year, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, gave a speech outlining America’s major economic problems, and the administration’s plan to address them. The ...

Last week, the progressive magazine Current Affairs published a broadside against Milton Friedman, casting the world-renowned ...

On December 6, AEI’s Director of Domestic Policy Studies Matthew Continetti welcomed Stanford University’s Dr. Jennifer Burns to discuss her new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Milton ...

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 honor of Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday, AEI offers a brief history of the late Dr. Friedman’s relationship with the Institute. In 1954, the American Enterprise Association hired William J.

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 influential ...