Buchanan had surely noticed that Milton Friedman never lived down having advised the junta on how to combat inflation: protesters disrupted the 1976 award ceremony in Stockholm at which he received the Nobel Prize and hounded his speaking engagements thereafter.36 Whereas Friedman’s name became permanently and embarrassingly paired with Pinochet’s, Buchanan, the stealth visitor, largely escaped notice for the guidance he provided. But, then, unlike Friedman, Buchanan never craved the spotlight. He was content to work in the shadows.
