Stigler objected to the proposal to promote student sovereignty over higher education. He argued that students lacked the qualifications to judge either the quality of a course or the quality of research. He noted dryly: "At Minnesota, 2 Mt. Pèlerin Members [were] at [the] bottom in 1946." At that time, the University of Minnesota's Department of Economics employed three MPS members: Rogge, Stigler, and Milton Friedman.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 105