Milton samulson was a canseyan, certainly in thear of macro economics. But his contributions to micro economic theory were really path breaking in the field. Milton started off in economics, but he worked out that in order to tell the tale that he wanted to tell, he needed to broaden out his appeal.
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.