More than 20 years after his death, we’re still living in the neoliberal world Milton Friedman made.

The arc of neoliberalism begins in 1947, gathers steam in the 1970s, and reaches its zenith in the 1990s before breaking into a million pieces and forever out of the control of its progenitors. The story of Milton Friedman rises and falls along with it, and it’s a complicated one of ego, ambition and academic notoriety; a confluence of factors and foibles that came to define the modern economic age.

This is the story of Milton Friedman, one of the principal architects of the modern world.

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