One thing that baffles those of us with no training in economics is that two people who hold diametrically opposite views can both be held out as giants of their profession. After all, if the great ...

A former student of the University of Chicago economics professor comments on what he learned from Milton Friedman about government intervention during economic slumps. Thomas Sowell, a former ...

Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, right alongside John Maynard Keynes. His work pushed economic thought toward free markets in the 1970s and 1980s. His ...

On Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott. The impact of Samuelson’s primer on economic thinking was nicely captured by Paul Krugman’s tribute to it in a 2011 essay, ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on an extended discussion about economics and John Maynard Keynes where she referred to him as “Milton Keynes.” The New York Democrat said that the “famed economist ...