Humanitarians, LSF wagered, were better equipped than 'the specialists of the economy, politics or business' to win an argument that liberalism is not simply conducive to economic growth, but in fact the only system capable of securing justice and liberty. The humanitarians lent their moral prestige to what the Heritage Foundation called the 'free enterprise ideological counter-attack' on Third Worldism and the NIEO. Their key impact was on the terrain of political idealism, as they helped long-cherished right-wing themes cross over to the political left, and re-signified state-led redistribution as a totalitarian threat to liberty and human rights.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 438