Freedman - Is That What You Had in Mind?

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Andros was always there to remind him, you know, whenever he wavered, thinkingo, it doesn't really matter. Mtter, but it does matter. Course, it matters. Tat sammys got the no bell price first. That's a great insight. I mean, melton, freedman, was always am aware of the disconnect between what people said they hoped to achieve by progressive acts and what the reality was. But welfare is the tin. You set out with a war on poverty, but you end up paying mostly black people to stay at home and doing nothing. Is that that what you had in mind? And i'll show you how we do it - open

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.