How Did They Get Along?

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Each were alternating a week weekly columns at news week for a long time. They got on with each other pretty well, considering that they had very different views of the world. Milton's energetic wife constantly carping at samuelson for living too high on the hog and that poor milton had to put up with only a second home in vermont. Even after years after milton's death pool, samuelson was still kicking his corpse. He could not resist giving another little jab.

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.