Tumlir arrived at his solution through a scale shift. He ­adopted Böhm's call from the 1930s for a decisionistic "choice" of an "economic constitution" but took the step, which the German ­lawyer had not done, of transposing this method to the international scale. In an admiring essay, Tumlir noted the scarcity of the German jurist's references to "the international matrix" and insisted that "an economic constitution is not complete without a theory of foreign economic policy and the ­legal control of it." He proposed taking Böhm's thought in two directions of practical application. The first was to develop "a theory (and binding articulation) of private rights with re­spect to foreign transactions."

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 826