The problem, I argue, was not that the human rights NGOs allowed the neoliberals to obscure the relation between their economic shock and the political violence necessary to impose it, as is often suggested. Rather, in conceptualising the problem as politics and the solution as law, the human rights NGOs bolstered the neoliberal dichotomy between violent politics and peaceful markets, secured by constitutional restrictions.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 65