His emergence as a public intellectual was a product of his interactions in the years after the war with the Foundation for Economic Education, the Mont Pèlerin Society, and the William Volker Charities Fund. Together, these institutions brought Friedman into contact with likeminded intellectuals who led him to reconceive his professional ideas in po liti cal terms, and commissioned him to write pop u lar articles and lectures that eventually changed the trajectory of his career.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 417