LSF went further than most, however, in directly entering the economic fray to prosecute an argument against postcolonial economic equality and in favour of a liberal economy. In doing so, it lent its moral prestige to the neoliberal counterattack on the struggle for postcolonial economic justice, and became complicit in the dramatic deepening of inequality that has been its consequence. Moreover, it helped to shape a distinctively neoliberal human rights discourse, in which civil and political rights are essential aspects of the institutional structure necessary to facilitate a liberal market order.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 381