Samberson wasn't nearly as politically connected. Didn't long for it, you point out, milton did. And tried to advise a number of republican candidates for president and actual presidents - with very mixed results in terms of them listening. A the one exception to that might be the volunteer army, which is a shocking policy revolution but didn't catch on. I think probably surprised melton. If he had o pick one idea that he thought it wouldn't have been that one. The use of recreational drugs is now amazingly commonplace tha states, one after the next. Chuck shumer mistake s in favour of legalizing marianna. You know, almost impossible to imagine. Even five years
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.