The neoliberal thought that dominated our politics for decades — and now appears to be in retreat — is often summarized as a relentless push to expand the market, shrink the state, and impose strict conditions on social insurance. But as Jennifer Burns’ new biography of Milton Friedman demonstrates, the leading lights of the movement — and many of their teachers at the University of Chicago and elsewhere — were more complicated and interesting thinkers than this shorthand suggests. As we reimagine our economic order , we would do well to grapple with their thought, both for the substantive […]
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