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i suspect if you go back and read capitalism and freedom, it's shocking to me how timely and thoughtful it still is. i think that what we're talking about is actually, all people in the public sphere, 15 years after their death, have been forgotten. It was probably true of churchill. Probably true of franklin roosevelt. You know, towering figures. And nobody reads up dyke any more. Ou w mean, nobody reads norman maylor any more,. No, these huge figures in their day, they used to dominate our screens. But it's all transient for most people. Is transient.

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.