While the shift of Chicago School economists towards a more charitable perspective on market concentration and monopolies helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the new policies, the global enclosure of ideas took place without consulting the original theorists of the knowledge economy. Under TRIPS, Hayek's sea of ignorance was parceled off into real estate.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 200