Arthur Robert Burns

While at Rutgers he encountered Arthur Burns, then a new assistant professor of economics, whom Friedman ultimately regarded as his mentor and most important influence. Burns introduced him to Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics, and Friedman later would approvingly quote Marshall’s description of economics as “an engine for the discovery…

In 1922 she married Arthur Robert Burns, a fellow economist. In 1926 she earned her doctorate and was awarded the Adam Smith Medal for exceptional economic research. That same year Burns and her husband traveled to the United States on a fellowship, and in 1928 they accepted faculty positions…