Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand

Jenn ifer Burns is a professor of history at Stanford who works at  the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history. She’s written two biographies Tyler highly recommends: her 2009 book, G oddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and her latest, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservativ e, provides a nuanced look into the influential economist and public intellectual. Tyler and Jennifer start by discussing how her new portrait of Friedman caused her to reassess him, his lasting impact in statistics, whether he was too dogmatic, his shift from academic to public intellectual, the problem with Two Lucky People , what Friedman’s courtship of Rose Friedman was like, how Milton’s family influenced him, why Friedman opposed Hayek’s courtesy appointment at the Univ