I Think It's a Good Thing That Harvard's Changed, if It Hasn't.

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Samuelson was a reject from harvard because he was an antisemitic head of the economic department. He wasn't offered a full lectureship, which is why he walked across the charles river and became the key star at m i t when it was just an engineering school. There's no diamni, you know, they sholi te a statue of him in the entrance hall of m i t. I think oli academic worlds are because they hamin logic, and it doesn't really fit reality. It's true that serny came out of briton, oxford and cambridge were always very intellectually snobbish. They didn't like anyone who hadn't

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.