Beyond financial assistance, Atlas also provided one-on-one coaching to help institutes develop in unique contexts. The idea was to relay “the experience of the [IEA]” and other first generation think tanks to “advise an ever-growing family of institutes.” Initially, this took the form of personal visits by Fisher. As de Soto later recalled, for example: “It was on the basis of his vision that we designed the structure of the ILD. He then came to Lima and told us how to structure the statutes, how to plan our goals, how to build the foundation, what to expect in the short and long term.”

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 575