Davenport clarified the way in which an important link between neoliberal and security concerns remained after all. Unlike Bauer's works, Davenport's left no doubt about which international policy the United States should develop. If there had been no communist menace requiring costly military efforts, he wrote, "it might well have been possible to be a little more indulgent toward the Welfare State and some of its experiments. . . . I think, however, that in the grim situation in which we stand we can go much further. We can say, 'The Welfare State is not only wrong in principle. It is, in this setting of the need to maintain a firm military position, a complete impertinence'" (MPS Quarterly 1, 1958, 8).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1333