Although dedicated efforts to address development issues from a neoliberal perspective were developed in the early 1950s, their impact was not widely noticed until the late 1970s, and not before the 1980s did neoliberal expertise attain the status of authoritative development knowledge. At this point, worried members of the development community in the field first observed, and critically examined, a contemporary “neoliberal counter-revolution” (Toye 1993). … The constitution of a powerful neoliberal cadre in development economics and politics several decades earlier remains overlooked.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1264