Freedman was an ideal log ah, i think he would probably claim he wore two different hats, the ideal log hat and the academic hat. He saw at first what amety chles did so brilliantly in exposing the tyrannical aspects of franklin roosevelt. The things that he close down. You know, you can't keep chickens, you can’t brow thiso,. All those sorts of inhibitions which were posed by the state in order to get a small number of people to prosper. So you're picking and choosing now between citizens. Whereas milton was, you know, everything should be open to everybody, and everybody should have equal access to whatever is available
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.