Initially, Atlas workshops had always coincided with the annual meetings of the MPS and the Heritage Foundation Resource Bank in what were “three jam-packed days of free-market networking and programs.” This aggregation of events could hook newcomers “overwhelmed by the magnitude of the vibrant American movement.” As Atlas became ever more central in the neoliberal constellation, it turned the Liberty Forum into a stand-alone event highly attractive in itself. In 2003, 150 participants came from twenty-six countries while the 2014 forum brought 600 participants from fifty-nine countries.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 594