Speaking at the 28th Atlas International Workshop in Istanbul in 1996, Deepak Lal, economist and MPS member, rejoiced that "the intellectual battle was being won." The fall of the Berlin Wall, the acceleration of globalization, and the impact of the Pinochet, Thatcher, and Reagan "revolutions" meant that ever more regions of the world were targets of neoliberal proselytism.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 553