Although the links between General Pinochet and Milton Friedman are fairly well known, and the special relationship between Chicago and Santiago has been better researched than most other neoliberal forays, Karin Fischer in Chapter 9 fills important gaps in the literature by tracking and tracing local and foreign neoliberals in Chile before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship. Her examination of the gremialista pillar of the local neoliberal coalition and her account of the role of the economists Hayek and James Buchanan, in addition to the Chicago School neoliberals, demonstrates the extent to which neoliberal knowledge and capacity building extended well beyond the economic sphere. By carefully identifying transnational MPS circles, Fischer also reveals the flexible character of neoliberal cadres who were able to administer important policy shifts during the Pinochet era, and their survival after the end of Chile's military rule.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 162