Jennifer Burns

About

Jennifer Burns is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of two acclaimed biographies, based on research in the Hoover collections: Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, and Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, which was named a best book of 2023 by The Economist and a finalist for the Hayek Prize.  At the Hoover Institution, she is part of the History Lab and directs an annual summer Workshop on Political Economy.