Clearly, Stigler and his fellow neoliberals expressed concern for “freedom of inquiry”—particularly the freedom to promote their views of the marketplace within the academy, which they felt to be implacably opposed to their aims. This raised the question about whether it would be possible to promote their interests within existing academic structures, or whether this called for a more radical response.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 122