Milton Friedman was an American economist and one of the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics. Friedman spent an academic year at Cambridge as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow. One of Milton Friedman’s most influential works, A Theory of the Consumption Function published in 1957, challenged traditional Keynesian viewpoints about the household. Friedman also published his book Capitalism and Freedom, which sold over 400,000 copies in the first 18 years and more than half a million since 1962. Read more.