Neoliberal intellectuals helped overthrow Allende before codifying any new-liberalism doctrine.

Evidence

I will argue that we need to consider Chile as a crucial site for transnational neoliberal resistance against the dominant postwar development paradigms of state-driven modernization, import substitution, and social reform. In the next section, I will reexamine the networking and coalition-building activities of the different “counter-revolutionary” political and ideological factions in the 1970s. As we shall see, neoliberal intellectuals were embroiled on multiple fronts in the effort to overthrow the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Only later was a Chilean understanding of a “new liberalism” imposed to crystallize this process. In this regard, it is essential to recognize the role of Chilean legal scholars in addition to the local economists. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1545

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that doctrine (‘new liberalism’) was imposed only after the political overthrow suggests an inversion of the usual ideas-first story worth verifying.
• XREF: connects to: The Allende government displaced market allocation to remedy material inequalities — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 317; US regional hegemony drove Washington to sabotage Allende’s Chilean government — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 321; The Allende overthrow made multinational regulation intellectually respectable for development economists. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1779 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Chilean business associations organized economic sabotage to overthrow Allende #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1560