A think tank’s expertise marketing successfully dismantled a UN regulatory body.

Evidence

The Heritage Foundation led by MPS member Ed Feulner should be singled out here because of its capacity to assemble and effectively market the neoliberal expertise that was crucial to undermine the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC). The UNCTC itself was eventually disbanded when it was unable to withstand the winds of change. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 163

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s broader network-formation interests: how a think tank converts academic expertise into policy influence — parallels Milgrom’s institutional analysis of how reputation/expertise markets work. — connects to: The UN’s own agency was dismantled and absorbed into pro-investment UNCTAD work — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1798
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 163

Broader Connections

• The UN’s own agency was dismantled and absorbed into pro-investment UNCTAD work #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1798