Dave Warsh wrote about Richard Musgrave. First heard about this person from the theory of taxation class. Wasn't really aware how big influence he had been to the field of public economics. Of particular interest from Dave's piece, is how Musgrave and Samuelson made friends:
"... [Musgrave] and Samuelson had been close friends for 20 years, ever since they had been graduate students together. Musgrave frequently expressed pleasure in later years at having led Samuelson to the problem that he so successfully solved. Samuelson in turn occasionally mused that perhaps he had cost Musgrave — or Abram Bergson or John Rawls or some combination – a Nobel Prize..."
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