"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." — Milton Friedman Decades ago, the late Nobel ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument ...

Oliver Hart is a professor of economics at Harvard University ... Oliver Hart: The basic idea - it starts from something that Milton Friedman said in an article in The New York Times Sunday ...

Here’s Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel prize and was the most important economist of the 20th century, on tariffs: “We call ...

For more than a century, UChicago scholars’ groundbreaking theories have redefined the field of economics—from Milton Friedman’s ideas on monetary policy and Gary Becker’s theory of human capital to ...

Today, monetarism is mainly associated with Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. In his seminal work A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, which he wrote with fellow economist ...

Main Street: "Inflation is just like alcoholism," said economist Milton Friedman. "In both cases...the good effects come first, the bad effects only come later." Could there be a lesson here for ...

Main Street: If Joe Biden intends to outcompete Beijing, surely Milton Friedman still offers a more compelling model than simply copying the government-directed approach of Xi Jinping. Images ...

Why was Milton Friedman important? He was one of a tiny handful of economic thinkers who have combined outstanding academic achievement (Friedman headed the influential Chicago School of ...

The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman was a free-market libertarian who believed that immigrants helped make America great. Yet he has become the restrictionist right's weapon of ...

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a Nobel laureate in economics and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and served on President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.