Like Rüstow and Röpke, with whom he shared a conservative Christian fear of the intrusions of politics, Malik took the view that global economic integration required moral transformation; if the 'undeveloped countries' wished to develop their economies, he argued in 1953, they would need to absorb not only Western techniques but also three thousand years of Western scientific tradition and a commitment to 'the inherent dignity of the human person'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 130