Global economic integration was premised on moral and cultural transformation of non-Western societies.

Evidence

Like Rüstow and Röpke, with whom he shared a conservative Christian fear of the intrusions of politics, Malik took the view that global economic integration required moral transformation; if the ‘undeveloped countries’ wished to develop their economies, he argued in 1953, they would need to absorb not only Western techniques but also three thousand years of Western scientific tradition and a commitment to ‘the inherent dignity of the human person’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters establishing Rüstow and Röpke’s ordoliberal Christian-conservative commitments and to the broader claim that the human-rights regime was built on an exclusionary ‘West’ ideal. — connects to: Postwar global economic integration was framed as requiring Western moral transformation; Neoliberalism required culturally transforming non-capitalist societies to extend markets — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 88; Several non-Western societies modernized without adopting Western culture (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar global economic integration was framed as requiring Western moral transformation #contradicts (0.90)
• Neoliberalism required culturally transforming non-capitalist societies to extend markets #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 88
• Imperial economic gain was recast as Western moral tutelage #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 117
• Several non-Western societies modernized without adopting Western culture #contradicts (0.75)
• Non-Western elites favored combining modernization with preserving indigenous culture #contradicts (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 200
• Economic policy change requires reframing the moral meaning a community ascribes to its world. #expands (0.70) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 29
• Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order #expands (0.70) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 315