Neoliberal development hegemony emerged from both opportunity structures and intellectual mobilization.

Evidence

Thus, by revisiting the largely forgotten episode of the NIEO, I aim to provide a different perspective on the making of a neoliberal development model—namely, one that highlights the interaction of both political and economic opportunity structures, as well as the mobilization of intellectual and organizational resources in the articulation and dissemination of a new orthodoxy. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1753

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 478; Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 81