Yes and:

Two (of many, many) books which detail two separate efforts to dismantle our administrative state are:

Lobbying America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691168016 the history of how Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce, et al reacted to The New Deal by transitioning from trade groups to political players.

Democracy in Chains https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stea... shares (Nobel winning economist) James McGill Buchanan's role in bootstrapping the Southern flavored conservative movement (libertarian "free enterprise" segregationists reacting to Civil Rights Era and The Great Society).

I know a great real world example of this. A friend of mine is an expert in economics, specifically Georgism and Modern Monetary Theory (although he has orthodox economics training as well). He's worked in policy in a range of institutions, and now works at the Australian Federal Treasury on policy. It's taken something like 8 years for that to happen. He's not a radical revolutionary, he's not a sleeper cell or a Trojan horse for some ideology, and he hasn't made any secret of the schools of economics in which he's trained when applying for any of his roles.

The more people working in government who understand what money is and how it works, the better off society will be. Where as many in the MMT or heterodox economics community generally seek to make as much noise as possible outside the building, I have a hunch that quietly and dilligently doing work inside the building is much more effective even though it's less cathartic (and there is documentary evidence that this has been the approach by libertarian economics adherents for quite some time![1]).

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Democracy-Chains-Nancy-MacLean/dp/...