Participants at the LSF colloquium depicted civil and political rights as 'categorical imperatives', while making clear that social and economic rights were 'less fundamental, universal, and timelessly important'. This distinction was borrowed from Raymond Aron, whose influence on the men who established LSF was such that the foundation came close to being named the Fondation Raymond Aron pour le Tiers Monde.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 387