The Heritage Foundation reframed redistributive demands as attacks on free enterprise.

Evidence

The same year that LSF held its first colloquium, the Heritage Foundation declared that, in the name of a New International Economic Order, the General Assembly had attacked ‘the very essence and philosophy of the free enterprise system. The undeveloped world, it charged, seemingly without irony, ‘prefers to strive to get a share of the West’s wealth as a kind of wealth transfer payment rather than work at creating its own wealth’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 424

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly did the NIEO General Assembly resolutions propose that Heritage read as a wealth transfer? Worth chasing the specific NIEO text.
• CANDY: The Heritage Foundation sneering at the global South for preferring ‘wealth transfer’ over ‘creating its own wealth’ is a compact illustration of liberal-charity discourse.
• XREF: connects to: Foundation patrons demanded control, rejecting purely theoretical liberal projects — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 738; Humanitarians served as moral shield for the free-enterprise counter-attack on redistributive demands — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 438

Broader Connections

• Humanitarians served as moral shield for the free-enterprise counter-attack on redistributive demands #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 438