Hence, by the time of his 1969 correspondence with Machlup, Stigler would not have accepted his argument that an agreement between trustees, regents, administrators, scholars, and teachers would foster intellectual freedom. He would have been skeptical that any one of those groups could be trusted to do so.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 138