Although Brandt had no time to consider the darker sides of colonialism, he did proceed to construct a positive program, and in doing so, he hinted at some persisting problems of colonial history. His perspective on the “political and social goals of the West” included a demand for equal access to education and training, equal pay for equal quality of work, gradual abolition of a privileged status for white people, private property as central precondition for human dignity, and the responsibility of individuals and as the basic incentive (p. 11). In this address, Brandt bequeathed us with a concise statement of core aspects of MPS neoliberalism: “the philosophy of freedom and human dignity, and a market economy governed by social conscience and responsibility of an elite of citizens” (p. 7; emphasis added).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1306