Volker Fund money paid visiting professors for Chicago’s Antitrust Project.

Evidence

The Volker Fund budget included funds to pay for visiting professors and like expenses. Director made good use of this capacity in the “Anti-trust Project” he ran at Chicago. On this, see Van Horn (forthcoming). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 837

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Chicago School was founded by Simons and Hayek with Volker Fund money — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 155; 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; Volker Fund controlled Hayek’s 1946 American lecture tour logistics and finances — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 740