Well there was a direct and concerted effort with a good deal of conservative baron money behind it – Koch, Scaife, Coors, Olin – to promote the Chicago School economists as the master-discipline of America, and to organize them as a policy force.

Think tanks, conference circuits, influence networks to get their work (or work with their name on it) into friendly media, endowing “law and economics” chairs at law schools as almost a right-equivalent to the “crits” then emerging organically from academic culture and analyzing law as a site of power-deployment and policy-making