Economic independence ideals were replaced by corporate-citizenship governance framed by the UN Global Compact.

Evidence

The earlier emphasis of development experts and political leaders in both developed and developing countries on economic independence and sovereignty has been replaced by a neoliberal understanding of good governance and corporate citizenship expressed by the amicable relations between corporate and political leaders in the UN Global Compact frame. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 163

Categorization

• XREF: The conceptual replacement of sovereignty-talk by governance/corporate-citizenship discourse echoes the reader’s wider reading on how neoliberal language colonized development.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 163