Stigler built a coordinated research network reaching into biomedical science

Evidence

In short order, his ideas took root. At the University of Chicago, Stigler opened the Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, which dedicated itself to pursuing the plan he outlined in his 1971 memo to achieve “decisive influence” over the conduct of government. Outside of Chicago, Stigler, his students, and those in their close orbit developed relationships with scientists, resulting in a variety of interlinked and coordinated research institutes spanning economics, politics, and even the biomedical sciences. These efforts were significant enough to draw the attention of Michel Foucault who, in his Birth of Biopolitics, not only mentions Stigler’s research by name, but also singles out the work of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Health Policy Research as an exemplary instance of the “permanent criticism of governmental policy” so characteristic of neoliberalism. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics lectures and to the broader literature on neoliberal think-tank networks (e.g., Plehwe’s own work on transnational policy planning). — connects to: Science advances through collaborative effort, not isolated geniuses — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 747; Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432

Broader Connections

• Science advances through collaborative effort, not isolated geniuses #exemplifies (0.82) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 747
• Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. #expands (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432