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When Paul Samuelson Dropped Out: How did those famous Newsweek columns end?
It was a transformative national debate, on the level of Hamilton and Jefferson, or Lincoln and Douglas: Paul Samuelson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Milton Friedman, of the University of Chicago, wrote dueling columns for Newsweek magazine from 1965 until May 1984. Then their arrangement ended abruptly, With no public explanation, Samuelson quit.…