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Dear colleagues,

Please find below the information of an online/in-person talk with Jennifer Burns about her last book on Milton Friedman.

All the best,

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

Hoover Institution Library and Archives invites you to a

Book Talk with Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PT

Stauffer Auditorium
Herbert Hoover Memorial Building
434 Galvez Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305

Reception to follow

ABOUT THIS TALK

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to join Research Fellow Jennifer Burns, author of the newly published book Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, for an engaging talk about one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Published this month, Burn's book is the first biography of Milton Friedman to make extensive use of his papers housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

The talk will be held in the Hoover Institution's Stauffer Auditorium and followed by a reception. Copies of the book will be available for in-person attendees and are available for purchase online at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Those unable to make it to campus may register to attend virtually as the event is hybrid.

FEATURING

Jennifer Burns
Associate Professor of History
Stanford University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jennifer Burns is associate professor of history at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009). Jennifer has contributed opinion pieces and analysis to The New York Times, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Dissent and has discussed her work in terms accessible to a non-specialist audience on interview programs and television shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

Rebeca GOMEZ BETANCOURT

President of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE)

Prof. Sciences économiques, UFR de Sciences Économiques et de Gestion

Co-responsable scientifique du Pôle économie politique du laboratoire TRIANGLE UMR 5206

Co-responsable du Master 2 Théories et histoire de l’économie dans la société

Université Lumière Lyon 2, Triangle-MSH

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Twitter: @rgbetancourt