https://reason.com/video/2023/12/20/jennifer-burns-on-milton-friedmans-legacy
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Burns is the author of the masterful and definitive new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist, entitled Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.
Friedman was arguably not only the most influential free market economist of the 20th century, but also the central figure in building the broad political and intellectual coalition that successfully challenged Keynesian economics and the top-down domination of experts in many aspects of our lives.
Gillespie and Burns discussed Friedman's conceptual and methodological breakthroughs in economics; her pioneering collaboration with female economists such as Anna Schwartz and her wife Rose; his role in popularizing the market economy through his columns in Newsweek and the television series Free To Choose; his controversial engagements with politicians such as Richard Nixon and Augusto Pinochet; and its role in ending military conscription and defending school choice.
This discussion was recorded at Reason Speakeasy, a monthly unscripted conversation in New York with staunch advocates of free thought and heterodoxy, which also serves as a live recording of this podcast.
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