The AIECP represented companies based on personal capital ("the company based on personal capital is, in all the professions, the one where the Chief, the "Owner" works at the same time with his money, with his brain and often, with its hands"), and as such its goal was to defend the owner-businessmen, heirs or founders of small and medium companies, against the intrusion of the state and the interference of trade unions.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 290