It has been reported that it was Kelly who recommended the neoliberal shock program to Pinochet in 1975 (Fontaine 1988; Arriagada 1998). The Monday Club developed an economic reform program, which eventually gained fame as “El ladrillo,” or “the brick” (CEP 1992). It was implemented after 1975 when the radical market fraction within the Pinochet junta achieved control over economic policy making.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1564