The Atlas Network grew from 15 to 457 think tanks within decades

Evidence

Marie-Laure Djelic and Reza Mousavi trace the development of the Atlas Network under the long-term leadership of the Argentine economist Alejandro Chafuen, from a modest network of fifteen think tanks in nine countries in the mid-1980s to a partnership of 457 in ninety-six countries. Beyond strongholds in North America and Europe (both West and East), the network is strong in Latin America and has reached significant membership in the Asia-Pacific Region and even Africa. In only a few decades, Atlas moved from the equivalent of small trade or handcraft to mass production, creating replicable templates for the production and diffusion of neoliberal ideas. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 43

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier reading on institutional reputation systems and how private networks scale — here a template of replicable think-tank production. — connects to: The Atlas Network scaled from fifteen think tanks to 457 across ninety-six countries. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 43; Atlas’s network expanded from eight to nearly 500 members over four decades — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 571; The Atlas Foundation seeded dozens of think tanks globally with small grants — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 573

Broader Connections

• The Atlas Network scaled from fifteen think tanks to 457 across ninety-six countries. #corroborates (1.00) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 43
• Atlas’s network expanded from eight to nearly 500 members over four decades #corroborates (0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 571
• The Atlas Foundation seeded dozens of think tanks globally with small grants #expands (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 573