GATT’s world economy centered on prices and rules, not labor and toil.

Evidence

To the GATT’s director-­general Olivier Long in 1977, the art was incompatible with the spirit of his trade organ­ization. As we ­will see, rather than a world economy of ­labor, bodies, toil, and leisure, the GATT’s world economy was one of price signals, rules, and, as Long declared in 1978, the “reaffirmation of the rule of law in international trade.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 791

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing projects on infrastructure/worldbuilding — the symbolic ‘worldbuilding’ of the postwar trade order versus the ILO’s labor-first vision.