Free-market institutions converted technical economist Friedman into a political intellectual

Evidence

His emergence as a public intellectual was a product of his interactions in the years after the war with the Foundation for Economic Education, the Mont Pèlerin Society, and the William Volker Charities Fund. Together, these institutions brought Friedman into contact with likeminded intellectuals who led him to reconceive his professional ideas in po liti cal terms, and commissioned him to write pop u lar articles and lectures that eventually changed the trajectory of his career. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 417

Categorization

• XREF: Directly advances the reader’s causal-chain interest in how MPS-infrastructure institutions manufactured public intellectuals — a concrete institutional mechanism story. — connects to: Viner’s price theory course converted Friedman to a coherent free-market economics. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 398; The economics Nobel transformed economic capital into symbolic capital inflating the discipline’s public power — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 459; Friedman’s influence grew from applying one analytic toolkit to many policy proposals — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 465 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Viner’s price theory course converted Friedman to a coherent free-market economics. #expands (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 398
• The economics Nobel transformed economic capital into symbolic capital inflating the discipline’s public power #expands (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 459