His opposition to sanctions was also based on an abstract princi­ple: that markets succeed through "the subtlety with which they connect producers and consumers and the anonymity in which they clothe the participants." ­Because the ideal market does not discriminate by race, religion, or nationality, to interfere in pro­cesses of exchange to punish this or that po­liti­cal power through an international authority—as in the case of Rhodesia—­would be to weaken "the system of ­free markets that is our greatest source of strength." Dominium had to exist beyond the whims of diplomacy.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 584