Although the language dealt in terms of “markets” and “consumers,” the reality was a vertically integrated set of operations, whose outlines were apparent by the 1980s. The expansion of the think-tank shell proceeded apace with the expansion of the MPS presence, as revealed in Figure 2.1. One can appreciate the amount of groundwork that had preceded the “breakout” decade of the 1980s for the neoliberal project described by Fink from this and other indicators of the activities of the thought collective.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 128