This outline of the history of neoliberal experiments in Peru indicates the extensive work involved in reorganizing the country in ways that made the subsequent research experiment possible. Contacts were made, advocacy training was organized, funding was arranged, fieldwork was undertaken, goals were established, political alliances were formed, elections were won, technologies were put in place to survey properties and record their ownership, and questionnaires were distributed and returned. All this experimentation and programming belongs to the work of economics. It organizes the world in ways that provided neoliberal economics with the opportunity to produce its facts.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1955