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Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

Jennifer Burns

“she wrote two biographies one on Milton fredman and the other on iron Rand both of which I highly recommend”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Jennifer Burns

“she wrote two biographies one on Milton fredman and the other on iron Rand both of which I highly recommend”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferenced

A Monetary History of the United States

Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz

“so first the book we're talking about is the a monetary History of the United States in part for which milon Freeman won the Nobel Prize”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek

“so he writes this book that becomes is incredibly famous the road to serfdom basically saying taking these steps towards a planned economy”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman

“fredman and the importance of his books um freed to choose capitalism and Freedom the television series he did all of these were like core components”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Free to Choose

Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman

“fredman and the importance of his books um freed to choose capitalism and Freedom the television series he did all of these were like core components”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Ethics of Competition

Frank Knight

“they assembled them into a book that was published this is the ethics of competition and you can read the introduction written in part by Milton Friedman”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

We the Living

Ayn Rand

“you mentioned we the living is one of the books that you like of hers uh the most”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

“so the Fountain Head is this story of a struggling architect Howard roor and she kind of follows his life and his career”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

“and then when Atlas Shrug comes out it's panned by reviewers people absolutely hate this book and Rand is not Howard roor”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

“I know a lot of people For Whom The Alchemist and they're adults and they brilliant people The Alchemist changed their life”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Virtue of Selfishness

Ayn Rand

“she's not doing herself any favors by like taking on the words and trying to Rebrand them completely like writing the virtue of selfishness”— guest
MediaReferenced

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

“going back to literature in 1984 two minutes of hate get everybody real like excited about like hating a thing”— Lex Fridman
MediaReferenced

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

“like with a monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey a monolith lands and everybody gets excited and somehow this idea just gets everybody to be on the same page”— Lex Fridman