The invitation framed the colloquium as a challenge to publicly accepted notions like 'the rich world's cows eat the soybeans of the poor', or ' "a new international economic order" is the only solution to under-development'. LSF was established, as an article in the Guardian noted, to counter Third Worldism, 'which it accuses of feeding on a European guilt complex that blames all the problems of the Third World on Western economic dominance'. Such an analysis, LSF figures argued, serves to excuse those who should bear responsibility for the problems of former colonies: postcolonial states.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 391