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Jennifer Burns (historian)
Overview
Jennifer Burns (born 1975) is an American historian serving as the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University and as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She previously served as assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia from 2007 to 2012. Her research focuses on 20th-century U.S. political and cultural history, including the history of markets, capitalism, and economic ideas.
Burns has published major intellectual biographies of American political-economic thinkers, notably Goddess of the Market (2009) and Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (2023). Goddess of the Market was reviewed in outlets such as Booklist, The Washington Times, and The New York Times, generally receiving favorable reception.
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It seems to us another circumstance of fatal import in Burns's history, that at this time too he became involved in the religious quarrels of his district; that he was enlisted and feasted, as the fighting man of the New-Light Priesthood, in their highly unprofitable warfare. At the tables of these free-minded clergy, he learned much more than was needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle, Life of Robert Burns
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"I remember, on this occasion I mention, I thought Burns's acquaintance with English poetry was rather limited; and also that, having twenty times the abilities of Allan Ramsay and of Ferguson, he talked of them with too much humility as his models: there was doubtless national predilection in his estimate, {61} "This is all I can tell you about Burns. I have only to add, that his dress corresponded with his manner…
Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns
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This mode of thinking is not only general with practitioners in politics, and with that very numerous class who (on a subject which no one, however ignorant, thinks himself incompetent to discuss) profess to guide themselves by common sense rather than by science; but is often countenanced by persons with greater pretensions to instruction—persons who, having sufficient acquaintance with books and with the current…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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- Cato Institute
- Harvard University
- Nathaniel Branden
- Milton Friedman
- Stanford University
- Hoover Institution
- The New York Times
- University of California, Berkeley
- Ayn Rand
- Connecticut
- Conservatism
- Goddess of the Market
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Part of Objectivism.
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