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The Influencers: To become iconic, Keynes and Friedman needed all the help they could get. It was of different sorts.
John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman traveled different paths to become the dominant policy economists of their respective ages. In The Academic Scribblers, in 1971, William Breit and Roger Ransom invoked the motto of the Texas Rangers to explain Friedman’s success: “Little man whip a big man every time if the little man is right…