Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at ...

Roy Swan, head of Mission Investments at the Ford Foundation and a national voice on using capitalism for good, dismantles ...

Rather than engage the economist at his word, Ms. MacLean imputes opportunistic motives to the date of Friedman’s 1955 article on the economic theory of school choice — one year after Brown v.

Here’s Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel prize and was the most important economist of the 20th century, on tariffs: “We call a tariff a protective measure. It does protect; it protects the ...

Tariffs in theory can bring trade partners to the negotiating table, as they did with Mexico. But Trump’s hardball tactics have mostly just triggered a trade war.

Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell agree: Tariffs are a really bad idea Cargo ships offload in the Port of Los Angeles Tuesday Feb. 4, 2025. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) ...

Criticised supply-side economics and denied that tax cuts were consistently self-financing. Milton Friedman (1912-2008) may not be the first name that pops to mind. Connecting him with the above ...

Milton Friedman was a leading economic figure of the 20th century, but his monetary policy theory didn’t work in practice. “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any ...

Although there are already several biographies of the economist Milton Friedman, not to mention Friedman’s own memoirs—written with his wife and scholarly collaborator, Rose Friedman—Burns adds color ...

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