Atlas Foundation directly engineered the structure of Peru’s flagship neoliberal institution.

Evidence

Hayek put de Soto in touch with Fisher. The Atlas Foundation helped set up and fund the ILD, one of the first of a new generation of neoliberal think tanks in the South. “Antony gave us enormous amounts of information and advice on how to get organized,” de Soto later recalled. “It was on the basis of his vision that we designed the structure of the ILD. He then came to Lima and told us how to structure the statutes, how to plan our goals, how to build the foundation, what to expect in the short and long term” (Frost 2002, cited in Chafuen 2004). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1945

Categorization

• XREF: Fisher and Atlas as the ‘venture capital’ arm of the network connects to the broader argument about how Mont Pèlerin imitated Gramsci’s war of position by building institutions; echoes Olav Slaymaker’s and Fischer’s earlier chapters. — connects to: A foreign-funded think tank inserted itself directly into Peruvian policymaking — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1950; Peru’s titling program was itself a large-scale neoliberal project — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1976

Broader Connections

• Peru’s titling program was itself a large-scale neoliberal project #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1976