The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently. ... Many people associated “Chicago economics” with Friedman himself.

Friedman is remembered as a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics and an advocate for free-market capitalism. Article Sources Investopedia requires writers to use primary sources to ...

Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein and Chicago school economist David Friedman debate the resolution, "The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important ...

The Chicago School's most prominent alumnus was Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, whose theories were drastically different from Keynesian economics. Understanding the Chicago School of Economics ...

1. Although he never reached the renown of his lifelong friend Milton Friedman, George Stigler was a founding member of the Chicago school of economics. His charming and readable memoir—really a ...

Milton Friedman, the patron saint of free markets and a founder of the Nobel-adorned Chicago school of economics, took a very ...

Now in its 9th edition, the book set off an avalanche of ideas from Chicago school economists, including Gary Becker, Ronald Coase and Milton Friedman, which passed into the folios of America’s ...

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35. As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton ...

Economics professor Lars Peter Hansen was appointed director of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (MFI) last week. Hansen headed the faculty committee that proposed the MFI and ...

Milton Friedman, the patron saint of free markets and a founder of the Nobel-adorned Chicago school of economics, took a very dim view of all tariffs — ours, theirs, anyone's.. Writing in ...

Milton Friedman was born on July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York. After earning a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University, Friedman completed a master's degree at the University of Chicago and a ...