Freedman wrote an economic text book for 18-year-olds. It was a bold, actually quite risky move at the time. He managed to maintain the true essence of his argument because he knew it so well. But i think there's one thing i want, i want to quibble with, and then tha, we'll talk about his political the political claims we just mentioned earlier.
Journalist and author Nicholas Wapshott talks about his book Samuelson Friedman with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson were two of the most influential economists of the last century. They competed for professional acclaim and had very different policy visions. The conversation includes their differences over the work of Keynes, their rivalry in their columns at Newsweek, and a discussion of their intellectual and policy legacies.