I Think a Melton Was a Lonelier Voice Than He Would Have Liked

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I think there're a lot of people who want to be the next melton freedman, or his acolyte. But he might have been a gadfly, but actually was a gadfly that youyou didn't put your nets down in the evening when the gadflies came out. He spawned a movement of sorts. I think capitalis ben freedom and free to choose were amazingly influentialad an, as i said, keeping those ideas alive. And on thea, they haven't really affected the political outcomes in america.

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.