Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns

Alex Nowrasteh

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During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden said, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” It was incredible for a presidential candidate to mention the name of an economist who had died 14 years earlier. After reading Jennifer Burns’ new book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, released November 14, 2023), however, I found that Biden’s statement is more understandable in Friedman’s case than for any other economist.