Peru’s titling program was itself a large-scale neoliberal project

Evidence

First, the possibility of the natural experiment depended on a prior and larger economic experiment. The attempt to test the impact of property ownership on the propensity to work was possible because Peru had become the site of a large-scale neoliberal experiment in the formalization of property rights and the formation of entrepreneurial subjects. Millions of citizens and hundreds of thousands of households had been drawn into an experiment designed to demonstrate that a simple procedure for acquiring property rights would lead to a transformation in economic action and a dramatic improvement in well-being. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1976

The property titling program in Peru, moreover, was not just a local experiment in neoliberalism. It was the outcome of a much longer project for the expansion of neoliberal economic arrangements, a project in which Peru and Hernando de Soto, as we have seen, became important relay points. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1979

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the neoliberal network’s policy experiments in the Global South — the reader’s focus on how the network influenced policy. — connects to: Peru’s neoliberal shock policy and pilot property titling drove de Soto’s global influence — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1953; Staggered rollout of a titling program enabled a natural experiment in Peru — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1938; Atlas Foundation directly engineered the structure of Peru’s flagship neoliberal institution. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1945 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1976; Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1979

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1983
• Neoliberalism rebranded itself through property-titling antipoverty programs. #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 164
• Peru’s titling experiment was entangled with other state interventions, contaminating its results #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1978