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Jennifer Burns is an American historian and professor at Stanford University, known for her scholarship on modern American intellectual history. She is the author of acclaimed works on figures such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, focusing on the intersection of ideas, politics, and economics in the twentieth century.
Known for: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
This biography offers a comprehensive portrait of Milton Friedman, the influential economist whose ideas reshaped twentieth-century economic thought and public policy. Jennifer Burns traces Friedman's intellectual development, his role in advancing free-market principles, and his impact on American politics and global economics. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book situates Friedman within the broader conservative movement and explores his enduring legacy in debates over government, freedom, and capitalism.
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Roots in Rahway and Rutgers: Formative Years
Friedman’s early years in Rahway, New Jersey, were modest, shaped by the aspirations of Jewish immigrants who sought education as both refuge and mobility. At Rutgers University, where he studied under Arthur Burns and Homer Jones, economics revealed itself not merely as a study of numbers but as a ...
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Chicago and Columbia: Forging the Analytical Mind
Graduate study at the University of Chicago under figures like Henry Simons and Jacob Viner transformed Friedman’s approach. Chicago’s intellectual atmosphere, rigorous, positivist, and often combative, demanded that economic theory be tested against reality. Yet it was Columbia University, and the ...
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About Jennifer Burns
Jennifer Burns is an American historian and professor at Stanford University, known for her scholarship on modern American intellectual history. She is the author of acclaimed works on figures such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, focusing on the intersection of ideas, politics, and economics in the...
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Jennifer Burns is an American historian and professor at Stanford University, known for her scholarship on modern American intellectual history. She is the author of acclaimed works on figures such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, focusing on the intersection of ideas, politics, and economics in the...
Jennifer Burns is an American historian and professor at Stanford University, known for her scholarship on modern American intellectual history. She is the author of acclaimed works on figures such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, focusing on the intersection of ideas, politics, and economics in the twentieth century.
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