Altogether the measures taken to overcome the crisis were conceived as state interventionism designed to rescue the neoliberal model. Pinochet himself (quoted in Martínez and Díaz 1996, 98) considered the period “a case of sidestepping to recover strength.” The measures taken consolidated and deepened the social relations in support of the previously established and promoted export-oriented mode of production.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1605