Austrian School neoliberals equated civilisation with submission to market demands.

Evidence

For Mises and his fellow Austrian School members, the restraint most essential to civilisation was submission to the demands of the market. They believed that, in creating a web of mutually beneficial relations, commerce was civilising, and that the most civilised peoples were therefore those with the most extensive division of labour. … The outbreak of World War I brutally shattered ‘the dream of an ecumenical society’ that Mises had believed was heralded by the ‘opening up of the backward regions of the Near and Far East, of Africa and America’ and the extension of the world market. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 110

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core Austrian School equation of civilisation with market submission and division of labour.
• XREF: Connects to the genealogy of ‘polished’ vs ‘rude’ nations that later institutionalizes developed-undeveloped dichotomies in development economics. — connects to: Neoliberals replaced the old language of civilisation with a market-based standard — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 64; Neoliberals framed the spread of markets as dependent on moral and religious foundations — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 120; Austrian School neoliberals grounded civilization itself in submission to the market — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 110
• SEED: Angle: the intellectual lineage showing how market apologetics inherited a colonial civilisational hierarchy from Montesquieu and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals replaced the old language of civilisation with a market-based standard #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 64
• Neoliberals framed the spread of markets as dependent on moral and religious foundations #contradicts (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 120