Network operatives divide labor between policy targets and public-opinion propaganda

Evidence

This also tended to foster the impression of those “spontaneous orders” so beloved by the neoliberals, although they were frequently nothing of the sort. Yet the loose coupling defeated most attempts to paint the thought collective as a strict conspiracy. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2114 (#expands, via linked claim)

See the letter from Smedley to Anthony Fisher dated June 25, 1956, quoted in Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable, p. 131: “[I]t is imperative we should give no indication in our literature that we are working to educate the Public along certain lines which might be interpreted as having political bias … it might enable our enemies to question the charitableness of our motives.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1829 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2114; Political disinformation was outsourced to low-cost global labor markets — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 485; Networked mutual influence, not heroic individuals, explains neoliberal thought formation — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 13 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks #expands (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2114
• The early neoliberal network deliberately concealed its political-bias intentions from the public #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1829