MILTON FRIEDMAN

BOOK AWARDS, PRIZES & MENTIONS

2026 Spengler Book Prize from History of Economics Society

"In short, turned loose on a mass of evidence from Milton Friedman’s life, Jennifer Burns makes it sing."

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2025 Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize

"This is the kind of scholarship we need more of: historically grounded, intellectually serious, and alive to the moral and political stakes of its subject."

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2024 Finalist, Hayek Prize

An Economist Best Book of 2023

One of The New York Times’ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall

Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg