Da wäre etwa Paul Samuelson, Verfasser des überragenden Ökonomielehrbuchs der Nachkriegszeit, der seine Kollegen daran erinnert, dass Chinas Globalisierungsgewinne sehr wohl zulasten der USA gehen könnten. Paul Krugman, der führende Theoretiker im Bereich des internationalen Handels, argumentiert, dass der Handel mit Ländern mit niedrigem Einkommen nicht länger zu gering ist, um Auswirkungen auf die Ungleichheit zu haben.
So we have Paul Samuelson, the author of the postwar era’s landmark economics textbook, reminding his fellow economists that China’s gains in globalization may well come at the expense of the US; Paul Krugman, today’s foremost international trade theorist, arguing that trade with low-income countries is no longer too small to have an effect on inequality; Alan Blinder, a former US Federal Reserve vice chairman, worrying that international outsourcing will cause unprecedented dislocations for the US labor force; Martin Wolf, the Financial Times columnist and one of the most articulate advocates of globalization, writing of his disappointment with how financial globalization has turned out; and Larry Summers, the US Treasury chief and the Clinton administration’s “Mr. Globalization,” musing about the dangers of a race to the bottom in national regulations and the need for international labor standards.