Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. In a video that’s gone viral, the late Milton Friedman correctly asserts about inflation that “consumers don’t produce it,” and ...

Friedman, throughout his career, was recognized as an elite economic scientist, an unusually astute policy analyst, and a prized op-ed writer. He was a highly in-demand public speaker who was as ...

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 ...

Fifty-two years ago today, the economist Milton Friedman issued a prophetic warning. Writing for the New York Times, he identified a growing threat to the free society: corporate executives who ...

economic consequences, and political aftermath of inflation, all of which are newly relevant topics today. What came across most forcefully in both Goddess of the market and Milton Friedman was ...

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 ...

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 ...

QUESTION: Who have been, in this century, the great luminaries, in economics, who have expanded our ability to measure precisely? MILTON FRIEDMAN: Simon Kuznets was an immigrant from Russia that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.