At the 1957 meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, the Stanford agricultural economist Karl Brandt drew on the myth of the market as a catallaxy that transforms enemies into friends to lay out a neoliberal approach to decolonisation. The problem for an 'enlightened liberalism', he argued, was not 'how to rid the colonial areas of the white people'; rather, it was 'how to create, as soon as possible, conditions in the colonial areas under which the white people not only can stay but where more of them can enter the areas as welcome partners and friends'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 232