Although Director and Stigler did much to shape the research program of their colleagues and students, they largely avoided public engagement. Director rarely published, and Stigler remained unconvinced of the merits of public advocacy, arguing that popularity and infl uence were usually "rivals, not partners." Friedman became the public rhetorician of the jaundiced view of government intervention that increasingly characterized Chicago economics. Here, too, the Volker Fund played an integral role. Its program offi cers carefully monitored the participants in the events they sponsored and sought to engage them in its other related activities whenever synergies were apparent.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 437