Modigliani, a refugee from Italian fascism, was broadly a Keynesian. Miller's mentor "a great influence in my life and in bringing me ... to serious modern economics" (Miller interview) was George Stigler, a University of Chicago colleague, ally, and close friend of Milton Friedman. (For example, Stigler and Friedman had traveled together in 1947 to the initial meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner and stopping off in London and Paris.)

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 171