Jennifer Burns
Historian and Stanford professor
Jennifer Burns is a Stanford University historian and the author of a biography of Milton Friedman.
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American Born 1975
About Jennifer Burns
Jennifer Burns is an American historian born in 1975. She teaches history at Stanford University and holds a research fellowship at the Hoover Institution. She studies American politics and culture in the twentieth century, with a focus on markets, capitalism and economic ideas. She has written Goddess of the Market (2009), about Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (2023). Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and the Financial Times, and she has discussed her work on The Daily Show.