The economist who became a Nobel laureate 50 years ago skewered not people but bad ideas.

Years ago, the great conservative economist Milton Friedman said Mexican illegal immigration across the border was a good thing. These workers, he said help the American economy. Friedman said illegal ...

Resource-bereft governments that most certainly cannot increase “demand” through spending can hardly do so via monetary ...

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 life. A few ...

"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 late July, the Trump administration announced it would take equity stakes worth nearly $1 billion in seven more private semiconductor companies as part of its investment in domestic chipmaking ...

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 ...

Short of erecting impregnable police states, governments can’t keep exchange media from circulating where exchange takes ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...