Hayek put de Soto in touch with Fisher. The Atlas Foundation helped set up and fund the ILD, one of the first of a new generation of neoliberal think tanks in the South. "Antony gave us enormous amounts of information and advice on how to get organized," de Soto later recalled. "It was on the basis of his vision that we designed the structure of the ILD. He then came to Lima and told us how to structure the statutes, how to plan our goals, how to build the foundation, what to expect in the short and long term" (Frost 2002, cited in Chafuen 2004).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1945