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Tyler Cowen

Disagrees with our reading

And indeed overall that interaction fits with my more general reservation about Friedman: he wanted to make economics just a little bit too simple.

GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? · 1 Oct 2023 · The korrent

Credits

Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.

GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? · 1 Oct 2023 · The korrent