Sergio de Castro was made the scapegoat and his public reputation suffered, but that was not allowed to interfere with the commitment to the overall economic model and to the dominance of the community of neoliberal economists. He took part in the selection of his successors and shortly thereafter again played an important role in debt negotiations and policy formulation. His staying power is further revealed by the fact that Sergio de Castro, the intellectual leader of the 1970s, and Rolf Lüders, the manager of the crisis, shared a common ideological home: they both joined the Mont Pélerin Society in 1982. … When ousted from their state positions, the neoliberal protagonists continued their work from within civil society: provided with channels of communication, think tanks, and public reputation, they continue to influence the transformation of contemporary Chile.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1616