I show that the neoliberals rejected mid-century welfarism, which they argued confused society with a household and was therefore 'totalitarian'. Nonetheless, I also argue that, in defining social and economic rights as flexible standards that did not imply binding obligations on states, the drafters of the UDHR developed an account of social and economic rights that was ultimately compatible with a privatised, neoliberal approach to the management of poverty.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 64