Initially, Atlas fostered diffusion through practical “venturing” actions. Having identified individual foot soldiers, it worked to empower them by helping them materially and coaching them directly. Atlas then made sure to keep in contact, with a double objective—to stabilize the think tank locally and to tighten its integration into the transnational neoliberal community. When the Atlas team met motivated individuals, it was ready to finance exploratory trips. In 1988, it thus financed one trip to India and two to Ghana.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 572