Special interest groups have always been a headache for government deficits and efficiency. Now they are running Washington.

QUESTION: Do Americans know enough about social statistics? MILTON FRIEDMAN: Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about ...

If the goal is to define or describe a free market, Milton Friedman, the most influential free market economist of the past century, is a good place to start. To Friedman, a defining characteristic of ...

Instead, policymakers would be wise to consult the teachings of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman: "you don't let prices rise, you destroy the system…which coordinates the activities of ...

Oliver Hart: The basic idea - it starts from something that Milton Friedman said in an article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Surprisingly enough. Back in 1970 I think it was — he argued ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Case for Dive Bars Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Sparkles How Elon Musk’s Service to Trump Will Probably, Eventually End Though standing around five feet tall, Milton Friedman was a giant ...

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 ...