Rethinking Capitalism and Freedom: Milton Friedman in Retrospect
2022 Baxter Lecturer: Dr. Jennifer Burns
Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Moderator: Dr. Gabriel Lenz
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract: Drawing on research from her forthcoming biography of Friedman, Stanford historian Jennifer Burns revisits the iconic debate on the legacy of economist Milton Friedman. How did Friedman understand the tensions between free markets and democracy? Nearly twenty years after his death, why have these questions re-emerged? In an era of renewed challenge to liberal democracy, what remains of Friedman’s vision and his longstanding influence on the political right?