John Davenport stressed the "positive program" contained in Bauer's work in response to frequent accusations levied against the neoliberal right of "just being negative" (MPS Quarterly 1 1959, 7): Foreign private investment combined with the adequate efforts of developing countries, "which can develop normally and naturally by sticking to well-tested economic principles—the principle of sound money, for instance, and the principle of limited versus unlimited government" (Davenport 1959, 7). However, David McCord Wright felt that in order to not be perceived in a purely negative fashion, "we will have to give some direct aid in addition to the military aid, as a diplomatic move more than anything else" (MPS Quarterly 1, 1959, 8; emphasis added).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1327