In awareness of prevailing security concerns, Bauer suggested that he neither condemned all government economic assistance nor wanted to minimize the Russian threat. But planning would yield the opposite results of what was aimed for on the one hand, and development should not be reduced to growth, a simple increase of the volume of goods and services on the other: "It is an increase in goods and services that people want and have freely chosen," Bauer argued, "it is a widening of human options. This kind of freedom is obviously jeopardized by systems of statist compulsion" (Bauer 1958a, 142).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1315