Viner’s price theory course converted Friedman to a coherent free-market economics.

Evidence

Jacob Viner’s introductory course on price theory, in par tic u lar, came as “a revelation” that opened his eyes to a world he “had not realized existed.” Viner had the capacity to represent economic theory as a source of “beauty” and “power” and to assemble a series of apparently discrete insights into “a coherent and logical whole.” — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 398

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader MPS origins narrative — early Chicago schooling as the seedbed of later neoliberal policy influence. — connects to: Free-market institutions converted technical economist Friedman into a political intellectual — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 417