Baudin was an internationally respected economist during the late 1930s, author of a memorandum for the IIIC, and among the more enthusiastic users of the term neoliberalism, the "basic idea" of which, he explained again after the war in 1953, "is the rescue of the human person."

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 385