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?
Jennifer Burns, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Moderator: Gabriel Lenz, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
The Baxter Liberty Initiative resides in UC Berkeley's Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science. Established by the Honorable Frank Baxter '61, the Baxter Liberty Initiative features annual lectures by intellectual leaders whose expertise and scholarship focus on the ideal of freedom in political and economic life.
