Search Results for Milton Friedman

.... References Caton, Hiram. 1985. The pre-industrial Adam Smith. Journal of Economic History 45. 41834-53. Washington and Lee University S. TODDLOWRY Power and ideas: Milton Friedman and the big U-turn. By William Frazer. Gainesville, Fla.: Gulf/Atlantic Publishing...

... of Mints’s standing in Chicago monetary economics—and in American monetary economics more broadly—is deficient. In light of (1) the originality and the breadth of his monetary contributions, (2) the cross-fertilization of his thinking with that of Milton Friedman, and (3) the way Mints’s original...

...George S. Tavlas Abstract Milton Friedman claimed that Jacob Viner's views in the early 1930s on (a) the monetary origins of the Great Depression and (b) the need of expansionary open-market operations established a linkage between the 1930s Chicago monetary tradition and Friedman's monetarist...

.... ____. 1973 . Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference . 3rd ed. New York: Hafner Press. Frankel, M., and L. King. 1996 . A Conversation with Leslie Kish. Statistical Science 11.1 : 66 -87. Frazer, W. 1988 . Power and Ideas: Milton Friedman and the Big U-Turn . Gainesville, Fla.: Gulf...

...David Laidler Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy . Edited by Cord Robert A. Hammond J. Daniel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 2016 pp. $185.00 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Hendry D. Ericsson N...

...Jeff Lipkes Raised as an Orthodox Jew, Milton Friedman wrote almost nothing about Jews and Judaism, with the exception of a paper entitled “Capitalism and the Jews,” delivered three times and printed four times. To help explain the paradox that although Jews have benefited hugely from capitalism...

...Sebastian Edwards Abstract This article investigates how Milton Friedman's views on exchange rates in emerging nations evolved through time. Early on he supported flexible exchange rates for most less developed countries. He endorsed several forms of flexibility, including auctions...

...Bruce Caldwell [email protected] Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative . By Jennifer Burns . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2023 . 592 pp. $35.00 . Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 The cover of Jennifer Burns's impressive new biography...

...Daniel M. Hausman The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy . Edited by Mäki Uskali . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xviii ; 363 pp. Cloth $130.00 ; paper $48.00 . Book Reviews The Cost of Living in America...

... 10.1215/00182702-2008-010 References Iannaccone, Laurence R. 1998. Introduction to the Economics of Religion. Journal of Economic Literature 36 (September): 1465–96. Manchester, William. 1993. A World Lit Only by Fire. Boston: Little, Brown. Milton Friedman: A Biography. By Lanny Ebenstein...

... W. 1927 . The Logic of Modern Physics . New York: Macmillan. Cagan, Philip. 1956 . The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation. In Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money , edited by Milton Friedman, 25 -117. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Darby, Michael R. 1972 . The Allocation...

...William Frazer Abraham Hirsch and Neil de Marchi. Hertfordshire, England: Harvester Whatsheaf, 1990. 325 pp. $49.95. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Book Reviews 767 Milton Friedman: Economics in Theory and Practice...

... (September): 793-94. . 1988. Power and Ideas; Milton Friedman and the Big U-Turn. 2 vols. Gainesville, FL: Gulf/Atlantic. . 199 I. Alternative Analytical Systems in Economics, photographic reproduction. Frazer, William, and Lawrence Boland. 1983. An Essay on the Foundations...

...George S. Tavlas [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Milton Friedman was the most influential economist in policy circles since John Maynard Keynes. Friedman almost single-handedly resuscitated the importance of monetary policy to academic...

... Francisco . 1983 . “ Inflation, Growth and Wage Policy: A Brazilian Perspective .” Journal of Development Economics 13 , no. 1 : 1 – 20 . Backhouse Roger E. 1996 . Interpreting Macroeconomics . London : Routledge . Backhouse Roger E. 2007 . “ Milton Friedman and the Method...

...Nicolas Vallois; Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled “Capitalism and the Jews.” The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man’s public interventions on the theme...

... . “ Friedman and the Cowles Commission .” In Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy , edited by R. A. Cord and J. D. Hammond , 585 – 604 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Christ , Carl F. 1949a . “ Further Comments on L. R. Klein's Economic Fluctuations...

...Abraham Hirsch J. Daniel Hammond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x; 238 pp. $49.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 602 Book Reviews Theory and Measurement: Causality Issues in Milton Friedman’s Monetary Economics. By J. Daniel Hammond. Cambridge...

...Jennifer Burns Abstract This article uses archival sources to reconstruct an alternate history of Milton Friedman's A Theory of the Consumption Function , spotlighting the contributions of his collaborators Margaret Reid, Dorothy Brady, and Rose Friedman. Although Milton Friedman offered public...

...Angus Burgin In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose . This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions...