The importance of these conferences, the related publicity work, and the follow-up process with politicians, central bankers, and the private sector during the rest of the 1960s cannot be overestimated. … As summarized by Triffin: “These discussions undoubtedly initiated a slow but radical evolution in the thinking of our official colleagues, preparing them at least for the decisions that were finally forced upon them by the events rather than as a deliberate choice many years later in 1971 and 1973.”

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 444