Lanny Ebenstein
Dr. Lanny Ebenstein is the author of many books and articles, and is an expert on Milton Friedman. He won critical acclaim from the Financial Times, The Economist, LibraryJournal, and the Chicago Sun-Times for the first-ever biography of Friedman, titled MiltonFriedman: A Biography. In addition, Dr. Ebenstein wrote the first-ever biography of Friedrich Hayek.
Dr. Ebenstein has been featured on C-SPAN’s Booknotes, and his work has also appeared in National Review, the Los Angeles Times, and many other academic and popular journals.
Dr. Ebenstein received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Currently, Dr. Ebenstein teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is an adjunct scholar at the CATO Institute. He also hosts a radio show and is an editorialist for the Santa Barbara News-Press.
Dr. Ebenstein resides in Santa Barbara, California, where he served two terms on the Board of Education.
Milton Friedman by Lanny Ebenstein
Counterrevolutionary
Milton Friedman: A Biography
by Lanny Ebenstein
Palgrave Macmillan. pp. $
The career of Milton Friedman, who died last November at ninety-four, provides a revealing insight into the course of American politics in the second half of the 20th century. In the immediate post-World War II era, Friedman’s free-market sympathies marked him, at least among intellectuals, as something of a crank. Yet by the ’s his theories had made a notable comeback in academic circles, and in economic policy they had gained ascendancy over the liberal Keynesian consensus that prevailed in the ’s and 60’s.
As the left-wing Harvard econo-mist John Kenneth Galbraith ruefully conceded, “the age of John Maynard Keynes gave way to the age of Milton Friedman.” And as we see in this new biography by Lanny Ebenstein—a professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the author of two books about Friedrich Hayek—Friedman’s journey from the fringe to the mainstream offers testimony both to his own considerable abilities and to the long-term drift of American political and economic thou
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Lanny Ebenstein Tells UCSB&#;s History
Lanny Ebenstein, Santa Barbara’s long-serving education and economics buff, recently published a sweeping article called “The Rise of UCSB” in Noticias, the journal of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. With a subdued tone pierced with some punchy language, the alum and now teacher at UCSB walks the reader through the university’s transformation from the late s, when UC Regents purchased a former military base for $10 and moved the expanding Riviera campus nine miles west, to recent efforts in controlling Isla Vista, the place he believes could be a real hindrance to UCSB’s ability to attract increasingly high-caliber students.
“When the college was in [the city of] Santa Barbara, it really was a liberal-arts school,” explained Ebenstein. “It has kind of transitioned from the emphasis on the social sciences to an emphasis on the natural sciences.” Among other achievements, he notes its state-of-the-art stem-cell-research lab, the campus’s role in creating the precursor to the Internet, and its amazing collection of Nobel laureates.
In quick and breezy language, Ebenstein touches on the campus’s architecturally haphazard development,
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