Robert Skidelsky

Milton Friedman – economic visionary or scourge of the world?

Monetarism, with which his name is associated, has long defined economic policy. But what would Friedman have made of the banking collapse, so soon after his death in 2006?

Milton Friedman in Washington in 1980. [Alamy] 
issue 13 January 2024
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