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Jennifer Burns

@profburns

5 years

Perspective | How reviving an old idea has fueled Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign

The Freedom Dividend actually builds off of a popular idea — with the left and the right — from the 1960s.

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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative named a best book of 2023 by The Economist

The best books of 2023, as chosen by The Economist

This year’s picks transport readers to mountain peaks, out to sea and back in time

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Milton Friedman designed – and possibly built – this desk himself

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My take on Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, behind the paywall at History of Political Economy or here

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Thrilled that Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative is named a best non-fiction book of 2023 by @tylercowen @MargRev really enjoyed my interview @cowenconvos

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excerpt from my new book here!

Revisiting Milton Friedman - ProMarket

The following is an excerpt from Jennifer Burns' new book "Milton Friedman, The Last Conservative," out November 14.

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@profburns

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From The Economist's review: "Because of Friedman’s long life (he was born in 1912 and died in 2006) and prolific career involving the modern era’s most important economic debates, Ms Burns’s book functions as an intellectual guide to the entire 20th century."

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Great way to start book launch day – with a visit to Milton Friedman’s summer home CAPITAF – with a view like this I could win a Nobel too! Next stop, talk @dartmouth

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@profburns

5 years

UBI crashes the party

Is this the moment for universal basic income?

Stanford historian Jennifer Burns discusses how universal basic income could become a major discussion point in Washington, D.C., as policymakers respond to the economic blow of the coronavirus...

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@profburns

11 months

And here for good measure is Aaron Director's library!

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Milton Friedman, resurrected to comment on UBI #BasicIncome @HooverInst @HooverArchives

Stanford scholar explores pros, cons of ‘basic income’

Stanford historian Jennifer Burns said that while political challenges exist to implement a “universal basic income,” this type of measure would protect workers and families against the fluidity of...

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@profburns

5 years

What could possibly be conservative about free money? My answer here: #YangGang @scottsantens #BasicIncome

Granting cash payments is a conservative principle

Republicans’ support for emergency cash payments granted through the CARES Act may have surprised some people, but many conservative thinkers and policymakers have backed giving people money,…

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11 months

Book drops tomorrow! Pre-publication pop quiz: who wrote this in a letter to Milton Friedman in 1948: “fundamentally, the only real test of a theory is in reasonably accurate prediction and this experiment did not lead to a "formula" that could be used for prediction.”

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@profburns

11 months

Milton Friedman's hexagonal shaped home was modeled on Robert LeFevre’s Freedom College in Colorado

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5 years

Exciting update: @HooverArchives reopens Monday, Feb 6! Location/ hours unchanged; register online to request material. If you study the 20thc, likely there is something in the collections for you; finding aids are available through the Online Archive of California.

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@profburns

8 months

there is a department of political economy with 80 faculty at @KingsCollegeLon are there even 80 ppl at Stanford who know what political economy is?!

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@profburns

6 years

For more on Milton Friedman and #BasicIncome check out this podcast from @HooverInst Fall retreat drawing on my @HooverArchives research. Start at 17:02 to skip the background info and get right into Friedman

A View from the Hoover Archives: Milton Friedman on a Guaranteed Annual Income

Recorded on October 23, 2017 In this talk, Research Fellow Jennifer Burns taps into the Hoover Library & Archives’ extensive Milton Friedman collection. Drawing on her own research in the archives as...

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@profburns

6 years

Looking forward to first day @HooverArchives ' Summer Workshop on Political Economy @Stanford with @AaronAckerley @EvanDMcCormick @terry_renaud @daniel_dsj2110 @austinLsteelman among others!

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6 years

Tonight, 9pm EST, "The Long Arm of Ayn Rand: Why She Still Matters," radio documentary airing on CBC. First part here:

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@profburns

6 years

Dismayed to share the news that @HooverArchives will be closed in 2019 for renovations. Researchers, you have 4 months to get over here! Scholars, please share the news widely so no one is caught unprepared!

Hoover Library & Archives Reading Room Temporary Closure In 2019

www.hoover.org

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@profburns

6 years

"I can't remember when I've enjoyed a day of conversation more," @stewartbrand to Milton Friedman, Jan 18, 1977 (just found in @HooverArchives )

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@profburns

6 years

Getting ready to talk about my research on Milton Friedman at @DukeU Summer Institute on History of Political Economy @FreddOld @ChristinaLaska1 @mvsbach @cfrasser

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"learning about Friedman is learning about how we got to where we are today" enjoyed this interview about Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative with @RuleandRuin on @NiskanenCenter vital center podcast

Milton Friedman’s unexpected legacy, with Jennifer Burns - Niskanen Center

Jennifer Burns makes the case why the generally conservative Chicago School of Economics, of which Friedman was the most famous representative, was not as hostile to moderation as it has usually been...

www.niskanencenter.org

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@profburns

7 years

Ayn Rand on family, false flag, and Milton Friedman: my EconTalk podcast with @EconTalker

Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market - Econlib

Jennifer Burns of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her biography of Ayn Rand, Goddess of the Market. They discuss Rand’s philosophy, her...

www.econtalk.org

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@profburns

6 years

Looking forward to hearing Robert Van Horn talk about his in-progress biography of Aaron Director, Milton Friedman's brother-in-law @HooverArchives @HooverInst @patrissimo

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6 years

My latest book review @zeithistoriker 's Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism in the American Historical Review

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@profburns

4 years

Would Milton Friedman wear a mask? My take here in podcast to mark his 108th birthday.

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The latest #Area45 podcast: @HooverInst fellow/ @Stanford historian/biographer @profburns on the life and times -- and lasting legacy -- of famed economist #MiltonFriedman (Friday being his birthday). #freetochoose

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@profburns

11 months

Really enjoyed talking with @KnowYrEnemyPod about Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative - even if rated “mature content” on Apple @SamAdlerBell dropped the f-bomb a few times! Nonethless a substantive and expansive conversation check it out!

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@profburns

6 years

A new path for early career scholars at Stanford's @HooverInst @HooverArchives ... Society of Fellows style 5 year appointment. Historians, political scientists, economists, disciplinarily ambiguous scholars etc etc take note! Apps due Dec 1

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@profburns

8 years

Keep getting asked about Rand's relevance to politics today, here's what I want to say: Ayn Rand is dead.

Perspective | Ayn Rand is dead. Liberals are going to miss her.

With Trump comes a truly illiberal conservatism, and that may be worse than old fashioned Objectivism.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@profburns

5 years

Ready for my keynote “Milton Friedman and the Long History of Monetary Rules” at Strategies for Monetary Policy Conference @HooverInstitution @EconomicsOne @RichardClarida @krogoff @CharlesPlosser @JHamilton_UCSD @PIrelandatBC @ScottMinerd @WielandVolker #HooverFedConference

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Book tour is a wrap! Highlights included Capitaf with @D_A_Irwin and life size statues of Milton and Rose (bizarre I admit)

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@profburns

4 years

But I'm convinced an African-American studies department is the right move at Stanford. It recognizes the tremendous energy AAAS has already built. It is the only way to move the needle on faculty hiring. And it is vital to the ML King Institute -- a neglected Stanford jewel.

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@profburns

11 months

What did Milton Friedman say at the first Mont Pelerin Society meeting? He argued for a guaranteed minimal income! More at @NiskanenCenter 's new Hypertext

Free money: Milton Friedman, unconditional income, and the neoliberal inheritance

Free-market champion Milton Friedman also advocated a "negative income tax." We examine how that project failed, how it succeeded, and whether it can triumph in the post-neoliberal era.

hypertext.niskanencenter.org

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@profburns

10 months

Want a signed copy of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative to give as a gift? Find ‘em at @ElmStreetBooks , @StanfordBkstr , @PoliticsProse – stores would be happy to ship direct!

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@profburns

11 months

excerpt in @washingtonpost today

Opinion | Milton Friedman, the last conservative

He worked on the New Deal, then advised Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Is the economist due for a revival?

www.washingtonpost.com

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@profburns

5 years

Need a break from coronavirus news? @CassSunstein longform essay on Ayn Rand, jumping off @TheFunFury ’s Mean Girl, with nods to Goddess of the Market – appreciate the credit lots of Big Names do the opposite!

The Siren of Selfishness | Cass R. Sunstein

Ayn Rand as mean girl.

www.nybooks.com

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@profburns

5 years

Ultimate Palo Alto power breakfast: almond latte and @margaretomara ’s terrific new book The Code: Silicon Valley and The Remaking of America

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4 years

And to the first point, African-American studies has been foundational to so many disciplines and bodies of scholarship. You can't understand the United States without understanding the Black experience. It's not a fad, it is the basis of building a true multiracial democracy.

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6 years

Happy 114th Birthday Ayn Rand!

Reflections on Ayn Rand 114 Years After Her Birth

www.hoover.org

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@profburns

6 years

Getting lost on the frontier of knowledge – a nice write up of my favorite class to teach @Stanford , historical research seminar that brings students to @HooverArchives and @StanfordSpec

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9 months

And then I cap it off with a talk at Oxford

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

www.rai.ox.ac.uk

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@profburns

4 years

I'm an old fashioned disciplinarian, so "studies" are generally not my thing

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@profburns

4 years

After 50 Years, It Is Time for AAAS at Stanford to Become a Department - Sign the Petition! via @Change

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6 years

Enjoyed my conversation on @Econ_Rockstar podcast, mostly Ayn Rand with a little bit of Friedman at the end

MetaKing of Econ /s

@Econ_Rockstar

6 years

162: Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand:Goddess of the Market and Objectivism

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@profburns

9 months

I'm also doing a talk on Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative at University College London next week

UCL Institute of the Americas Public Seminar - Milton Friedman: The

Join us for an engaging in-person seminar as we delve into the life and ideas of Milton Friedman, The Last Conservative with Professor Burns

www.ucl.ac.uk

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@profburns

5 years

enjoyed talking about Henry Simons, Henry George, and Milton Friedman video here #HooverFedConference

Hoover Institution

@HooverInst

5 years

LIVE: @profburns discusses Milton Friedman and the long history of monetary policy rules. #HooverFedConference

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1/11 Another kerfuffle over the reputation of a right wing economist, this time it’s about Aaron Director, Milton Friedman’s brother-in-law. A few thoughts:

How Powerful Ideas Can Shape Society: Aaron Director and the Triumph of Nihilism - ProMarket

The rise of giants like Amazon and Facebook proves the long-lasting influence of Director’s approach to monopolies and democracy. ProMarket

www.promarket.org

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@profburns

9 months

enjoyed doing this @FUSIONaier interview with @jacob_bruggeman in the lead up to #AHA24

FUSION: In the Tradition of Liberty

@FUSIONaier

9 months

A new edition of @FUSIONaier , which features concise interviews with authors of recent books on the tradition of liberty, will be published this month. Starting the discussion is @profburns , who is presenting her recently published biography on Milton Friedman:

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6 years

What's it like to study the history of conservatism in the time of Trump? Some thoughts in my @StanfordAlumni TED talk

Rethinking the Right with Jennifer Burns

Watch Reunion Homecoming remarks on Rethinking the Right from Jennifer Burns, associate professor of history

www.youtube.com

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@profburns

10 months

Celebrating with students and colleagues at the Stanford faculty club

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@profburns

5 years

How the Chicago School changed the meaning of Adam Smith’s invisible hand - read the ever talented Glory Liu @miss_glory on Friedman, Stigler, Smith, et al

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then the first @ucl student I meet at my talk is an avid listener of @KnowYrEnemyPod

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After 50 Years, It Is Time for AAAS at Stanford to Become a Department - Sign the Petition! via @Change

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@profburns

11 months

And I’d be remiss not to mention Edwards’ excellent new book

The Chile Project

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe

press.princeton.edu

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@profburns

6 years

"Right now, so much depends on which conservative genes become dominant and which become recessive" @secupp on The Conservative Coma

The Conservative Coma

On the day of a historic election, the question remains: will John McCain’s brand of politics survive on the right? Or will it be eaten alive by the vicious race-baiting of the Trump era?

www.vanityfair.com

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@profburns

4 years

What does the pope have in common with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, extreme free-market economist Milton Friedman, and Martin Luther King Jr.?

Everything you need to know about Universal Basic Income

So, you just...give people cash?

mashable.com

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@profburns

3 years

“It’s very unusual to find a policy proposal that can draw together people from so many different ideological persuasions” interesting piece from @stanfordmag on UBI research at Stanford

The Basic Question

Should everyone receive a small, stable income from the government? The idea is going around again, and some think its time has come.

stanfordmag.org

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6 years

@Undercoverhist gotta wait for the book!!

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11 months

if you're enjoying Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative check out these other 5 best biographies I wrote about in the Wall Street Journal

Five Best: Lives of Economists

Selected by Jennifer Burns, the author of ‘Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.’

www.wsj.com

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@profburns

5 years

is there such thing as a "capitalist left?" @henryfarrell says yes and Elizabeth Warren embodies it

Socialists Will Never Understand Elizabeth Warren

The Democratic candidate is part of a long intellectual tradition that’s gone forgotten in the West: pro-market leftism.

foreignpolicy.com

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@profburns

5 years

heading out to my Monday 9am (!) session on "Writing the History of Conservatism in Era of Donald Trump" with @RuleandRuin and @MarshaEBarrett and Vince Cannato at #AHA2020

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@profburns

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NEWS: Stanford to study "future status of African and African American studies, and whether the research and educational missions of the university would be better served with departments rather than the current structure of interdisciplinary programs"

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@profburns

4 years

I'm an old fashioned disciplinarian, so "studies" are generally not my thing

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Preparing for @HooverInst Centennial Series Lecture, Tax and Monetary Reform: From Ideas to Actions Over 100 Years, with @EconomicsOne and Bob Hall, livestream here:

Tax and Monetary Reform: From Ideas to Actions over 100 Years

Hoover Institution economists have generated many ideas on tax reform and monetary reform over the years, from the Friedman Rule and government spending limi...

www.youtube.com

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@profburns

6 years

On it goes - new blog post by Steve Teles on Democracy in Chains redux @henryfarrell @D_Kuehn

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6 years

My colleague and coauthor Steve Teles, a barrel of fish, and a shotgun -- good times. via @NiskanenCenter

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Who says everyone in Silicon Valley is liberal? Stanford Politics digs into Peter Thiel's Stanford Review/Silicon Valley network in an impressively researched long form essay...

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@profburns

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Friedmanomics rising in Argentina - while Friedman preferred floating exchange rates, he thought a “unified currency” could also work => abolishing central bank and dollarizing economy as #Milei proposes

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@krishnanrohit @samhaselby arg I need to revise my argument! clearly he owes it all to the desk!

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1/3 Are we heading (back) to immuno-capitalism? "Immunity passports" etc seem like sci-fi but @katolivarius explains precedents in American history

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1 year

now getting ready for another talk about how I used @HooverArchives to write my forthcoming biography of Milton Friedman

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8 months

scenes from UK book tour... my first meeting is at Lytton Strachey's former house... right next to former home of John Maynard Keynes!

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1 year

1/3 A reader shared some lovely reminiscences of Dorothy Brady and Margaret Reid, two economists I discuss in my @nytopinion editorial, and my forthcoming book Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

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@profburns

9 months

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative book tour crosses the pond! First stop IEA Book Club in London

Institute of Economic Affairs

@iealondon

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🚨 IEA BOOK CLUB 🚨 📕 ‘Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative’ ✍️ with author @profburns and IEA Executive Director Tom Clougherty 📅 Mon, 29 January 🕰️ 17.30 - 19.30 ➡️ Learn more and apply to attend:

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Want to study American religion @Stanford ? Launching a new interdisciplinary program, American Religions in a Global Context with @KGinLum @tanyaluhrmann James Campbell, Ari Kelman, Joel Cabrita apps open now for grad program starting next fall

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then to the Elysian fields of Oxford, view from my accommodation at University College, then the Bodelian Library historian's dream

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"there is a 'before-Friedman' and an 'after-Friedman' when it comes to corporate social responsibility" I spoke to Axios for an article on "The Challenge to Icon Milton Friedman"

Axios Future: Challenging Milton Friedman — Musk's new chip — Amazon's automated firings

Have your friends signed up?

www.axios.com

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always appreciate a thoughtful and informed review... love the Chicago specific shout outs!

Chicago Reader

@Chicago_Reader

9 months

Max Blaisdell reviews a biography of Milton Friedman by @profburns .

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Reflections on Rand and Russia 100 years later --

Opinion | Ayn Rand’s Counter-Revolution (Published 2017)

How a refugee from Bolshevik Russia became the ultimate apostle of American anti-Communism.

www.nytimes.com

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@profburns

10 months

headed to SF to jam about Milton Friedman, 1970s Reason magazine, Forbes ASAP, high tech Hayekians at @AHAhistorians panel on libertarianism with a stellar crew including @jacob_bruggeman @adriandaub .bsky.social #AHA2024

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@D_Kuehn @Undercoverhist @irwincollier Hi Dan, It's not accurate to call Arthur R. Burns a mentor of Friedman's. He doesn't show up in any of the voluminous material from his Columbia years, including lecture notes, transcripts, letters, etc. I looked at your sources they are flat wrong. It's a mix up with Arthur F

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3/3 Margaret Reid “was the scourge of [Chicago Ph.D. economics] thesis seminars. If she showed up at your seminar you had to assume that Maggie knew more about your data than you did. She showed up at my thesis seminar and she did.”

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Tabard Inn dinner with @continetti , @jawillick @GreenPlusAnE @DominicJPino

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10 months

professional reviews are great (especially the thoughtful and well informed ones like those by @PatrickIber ) but I'm especially happy when readers boost the book of their own free will!

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@steve_hanke

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It's fashionable to start each New Year with a book recommendation. One of my top picks is "Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative," an edifying 578 page read by Stanford University Prof. Jennifer Burns ( @profburns ).

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10/11 As @HenryFarrell and Steve Teles have argued, it serves no one – left, right, or center – to downplay the genuine intellectual appeal of conservative or market based ideas.

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Hey @pmarca why John Galt and not Ayn Rand? Her essay on Apollo 11 is a classic “one knew that this spectacle was not the product of inanimate nature, like some aurora borealis, or of chance, or of luck, that it was unmistakably human – with “human,” for once, meaning grandeur"

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@profburns

5 years

2/11 @davidrhenderson is right that @matthewstoller ‘s blog post is meant to be quick and dirty overview that teases ; I have sympathy for an author trying to summarize a book on a blog; but Henderson is also right to call it a hatchet job

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Goddess of the Market has been released in Russian! New title, apparently: “Egoism for the Winners”

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@profburns

7 years

How Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review Built a Silicon Valley Empire via @stnfrdpolitics

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@profburns

5 years

Milton Friedman is hi-fiving this guy from the grave:

Policy rule could help shield Fed from Trump pressure: economist

The Federal Reserve ought to adopt a monetary policy rule to guide its interest-rate-setting decisions in part as a bulwark against a near daily barrage of presidential criticism, a widely respected...

www.reuters.com

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@profburns

5 years

3/5 Political structure matters: passed in the last year of a term limited governor’s tenure. Strong Alaska executive forecloses new taxation. Representative gov and strong legal systems helped Alaska avoid the oil curse... until now @LeifWenar

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@profburns

9 years

Just arrived in Chicago for a conference on the Chicago school... 15 economists (4 w Nobel Prizes) and me... wish... http://t.co/nkoH6hLLzc

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@profburns

12 years

This white paper from Stanford on the future of the humanities Ph.D. is generating a lot of buzz in the higher ed... http://t.co/YkulxOHc

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10 months

Boosting independent bookstores like @elmstreetbooks

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@profburns

5 years

"Suddenly, you have more of a defined left and right, because both sides think the middle - the establishment, the powers that be - are messing things up" I was talking to @maddiecarlisle2 @Time about the 1960s but applies today!

What to Know About the Origins of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ in Politics, From the French Revolution to the...

How did such seemingly benign descriptions come to define the political spectrum?

time.com

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@profburns

5 years

@RuleandRuin why have democrats not mentioned opioid crisis in debates – in terms of casualties akin to not talking about Vietnam War in the late 60s #AHA2020

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10 months

Catching up with lots of old friends along the way!!

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A dollar themed book party thrown by @Stanford in DC

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@profburns

5 years

5/5 these are my own first take thoughts, stay posted for Basic Income Lab white paper

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Jennifer Burns

@profburns

10 months

A boozy evening crowd of libertarians at @reason speakeasy with @NickGillespie

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Jennifer Burns

@profburns

5 years

1/5 Reflecting on last weekend’s Stanford Basic Income Lab conference on Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. #basicincome @scottsantens @basicincome @stanfordethics My takeaways:

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