A Trade Deal Without Teeth Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Printed On Brightline Touches the Third Rail JD Vance Should Take the Moon Shot Time to Spring Trump’s Tariff Trap A look back at Friedman's essay ...

Business firms are purpose-built entities, well-suited to creating wealth through market exchanges, and ill-suited to other purposes–like solving the myriad social and environmental problems that ...

To most people in philanthropy, Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who died last month, is probably best known — if he is known at all — as an opponent of corporate social ...

Has Milton Friedman made it into Rachel Reeves’s bedtime reading over recent months? It is indubitably the case that most of ...

Way back in 1962, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously proclaimed, “… there is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities ...

In his widely read 1970 article about the role of business in society, economist Milton Friedman justified the old adage that “the business of business is business” so confidently that more than 50 ...

Say what you will about Milton Friedman’s notable contributions to economics, his view of the role of corporations doesn’t stand the test of time. And by “time” I mean less than a year. Even as the ...

As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton Friedman, "Many aspects of our contemporary world that today seem commonplace have their origins in one of ...

Anyone trying to understand how ESG investing got to where it is today might be surprised to find that its origins can be traced to some unexpected places. In 1970, economist Milton Friedman wrote an ...

Half a century ago, Milton Friedman argued that American citizens should be free to choose a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. In 1982, he helped craft Joint Resolution 58, an amendment ...

I hate absolutes, so when I read Milton Friedman’s famous quote on the role of business, I set out to debunk him. Fifty years is way too long to hold a record or have a fundamental theory that has not ...