In the great period of decolonisation, the neoliberal majority was preoccupied with the danger that independent postcolonial states would refuse to submit to their existing positions in the international division of labour. They had become increasingly anxious that a 'dangerous liaison' between supporters of planning in developed and developing countries threatened the market system. Emerging agendas of industrialisation, import substitution and economic planning threatened to recapitulate the 'totalitarian' Fabian model, while demands for economic self-determination politicised the economy and eroded the separation of dominium and imperium.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 279