Tag: Prizefighter

In 2002, three months after Milton Friedman turned ninety, a celebratory conference was convened at the school that had become synonymous with his ideas. Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, delivered a talk at the University of Chicago on “Depression and Recovery.” It had been thirty-nine years since Friedman published “A Monetary History of the United States,” his blockbuster account of how the Fed’s missteps caused the Great Depression, and twenty-five years since he