Registration required.  The event will be videotaped and live-streamed on Media Central.

Jennifer Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford University and historian of the 20th-century United States. Her work sits at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on ideas about the state, markets, and capitalism and how these play out in policy and politics. Her most recent book, “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative,” is the first full biography of the influential economist and political figure. Her first book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009), was an intellectual biography of the libertarian novelist Ayn Rand. Jennifer has published articles about the history of conservatism, libertarianism, and liberalism in several academic and popular journals, including Reviews in American History, Modern Intellectual History, Journal of Cultural Economy, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Dissent.   

Discussants: Harold James, Carolyn Wilkins
Introductions: Michael Bordo

This event is cosponsored with the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies and the Economic History Workshop.