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" In twentieth-century political thought about the future, the main dividing line when it came to institutions was between those who supported planning and the attempt to command the future and those who rejected planning in the name of the market or individual freedom. In the early Cold War, the importance of leaving individual futures open became a feature of defenses of liberalism and capitalism: where neoliberals and social liberals disagreed was about how much and what kind of institutional intervention was required to secure the conditions of an open future. "

, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy


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 quote : In twentieth-century political thought about the future, the main dividing line when it came to institutions was between those who supported planning and the attempt to command the future and those who rejected planning in the name of the market or individual freedom. In the early Cold War, the importance of leaving individual futures open became a feature of defenses of liberalism and capitalism: where neoliberals and social liberals disagreed was about how much and what kind of institutional intervention was required to secure the conditions of an open future.