Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom e… - Robert Gilpin

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.