The Volker Fund continued active oversight of Chicago work after project launch

Evidence

The interventions of the Volker staff at the University of Chicago after 1946 are too numerous to be covered in this chapter; see, however, Van Horn (2007). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 856

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing what specific interventions the Volker Fund made at Chicago after 1946 — this footnote hints at a sustained patron influence.
  • XREF: connects to: The Volker Fund replaced its support for the MPS with its own conference program. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 321; Postwar fears of federal university funding drove Chicago to accept Volker money — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 742; Capitalism and Freedom originated as a Volker Fund project delivered a decade late — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 793