"This two-volume biographical work provides a foundational introduction to Friedman's role in several major economic debates that took place over four decades in the US, from 1932 through the end of 1972. The debates considered include both those that were largely carried out in the...

1. The problems at hand -- 2. The money question -- 3. On firm ground -- 4. Economists and the search for industrial order -- 5. Obscured irrelevance : economists in the boom years -- 6. Stuck in the middle : economists, agricultural reform, and crisis.