State-funded scholarships built and bound a loyal Chilean reform team

Evidence

ODEPLAN created numerous cooperation treaties with the Catholic University (thus shifting considerable funds to the Economics Department) and granted scholarships to study abroad. These activities played a decisive part in the building and maintenance of a skilled reform team throughout the military government, and in assuring the allegiance of its members to the regime. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1631

Categorization

• XREF: Direct causal account of how the Chicago/Chicago Boys pipeline was financed and how allegiance was manufactured — relevant to the Mont Pèlerin network’s concrete mechanisms. — connects to: Virginia School public choice shaped Chilean labor and privatization reforms — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1582; ODEPLAN functioned as an insulated think tank seeding ideologically cohesive technocrats across Chilean ministries — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1572
• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Grafting & Growth’ metaphorically: an agency deliberately cultivated, funded, and disciplined a reform team — a planted and trained cadre rather than spontaneous ideological conversion.

Broader Connections

• ODEPLAN functioned as an insulated think tank seeding ideologically cohesive technocrats across Chilean ministries #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1572