Chicago economists’ advocacy emerged in their students, not Knight and Viner themselves

Evidence

Despite their personal and professional differences, Knight and Viner both sought to distance themselves from partisan debate and therefore held aloof from organizations they perceived to have an ideological agenda. They adopted this disinterested stance in deliberate opposition to the approach of their interventionist colleagues, whom they consistently criticized for their frequent engagements in politics and their willingness to validate matters of opinion with the mantle of science. Many of their students would choose to protest the growth in the scope of governance by entering the po liti cal fray themselves. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 130

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Underwrites the intellectual-genealogy framing of the austerity/neoliberalism project: the founding generation modeled detachment, and the advocacy turn came from the next cohort — a useful parallel to how tree-infrastructure or sacrifice narratives reframe received genealogies.
• XREF: connects to: Chicago economics converted socialist students into market advocates despite no explicit proselytizing — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 117; The Chicago faculty instilled price-system conservatism into its graduate students — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 89; Chicago’s postwar economics department harbored socialist and institutionalist factions — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 742 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Chicago economics converted socialist students into market advocates despite no explicit proselytizing #expands (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 117
• Frank Knight’s lectures converted socialists into libertarians, founding the Chicago School #contradicts (0.82) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 92
• Frank Knight’s personal influence was central to creating the Chicago libertarian tradition #contradicts (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 857
• The Chicago faculty instilled price-system conservatism into its graduate students #complicates (0.78) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 89
• Chicago’s postwar economics department harbored socialist and institutionalist factions #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 742