Jennifer Burns - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this episode, historian Jennifer Burns joins Cole Smead to discuss her book "Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative," which provides an in-depth analysis of Friedman's economic theories and their lasting impact on conservative ideology. The book chronicles key moments in the life of one of the most influential economists of our time, and how his pragmatic way of thinking significantly shaped contemporary economic discourse.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:08.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure.
0:12.8	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:26.2	Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help
0:30.5	shape informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late
0:35.6	great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.
0:39.4	We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.
0:44.0	Hello to our audience today.
0:45.4	We're going to discuss one of the most pragmatic minds of the 20th century who taught the world the power of market-based forces and the quantity theory of money.
0:53.6	Joining the podcast is Jennifer
0:55.2	Burns to discuss her new book, Milton Freeman, The Last Conservative. A little bit about Jennifer.
1:00.6	She is the associate professor of history at Stanford University and a research fellow at Stanford's
1:05.5	Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. She also authored Goddess of the Market,
1:11.3	Ein Ran and the American Right that was published in 2009.
1:14.2	An expert on this history of conservative ideas and politics,
1:17.6	she has written for the New York Times,
1:19.3	the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and dissident,
1:22.1	and has discussed her work on The Daily Show,
1:24.0	the Colbert Report, and elsewhere.
1:25.6	She received her bachelor's degree in history from Harvard, her master's in history from the University of California, and her Ph.E. in history,
1:32.1	also from the University of California. Jennifer, thanks for joining me today.
1:36.2	Thanks so much for having me in that nice introduction. Well, this is an easy book to kind of
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