In his youth, Director was a progressive (today he would have been called a liberal) who earned his college degree in three years at Yale and then became a history teacher. Later he went to graduate school at Chicago, and it was in one course there that switched to become a conservative. According to [[Ronald Coase]], a course taught by Professor Jacob Viner changed Director's political and economic views. "It is easy to understand why a solid course by this great teacher and great economist would have swept away like chaff in a windstorm the nebulous idealism and Socialist views of Director’s Yale days," Coase stated in ''Palgrave''.<ref>http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040913.director.shtml</ref> | In his youth, Director was a progressive (today he would have been called a liberal) who earned his college degree in three years at Yale and then became a history teacher. Later he went to graduate school at Chicago, and it was in one course there that switched to become a conservative. According to [[Ronald Coase]], a course taught by Professor Jacob Viner changed Director's political and economic views. "It is easy to understand why a solid course by this great teacher and great economist would have swept away like chaff in a windstorm the nebulous idealism and Socialist views of Director’s Yale days," Coase stated in ''Palgrave''.<ref>http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040913.director.shtml</ref> |