I Love T Now, I Think He Believed in Individual Choice

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Milton believed powerfully that people should be free to choose what was best for them. He did he put them on the intellectual table, which i think is not unimportant. But his influence on the republican party, to me, is nil. You now, he changed their rhetoric, but they're not the party of small government. And over his lifetime, government just grew steadily.

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.