In her book Six Faces of Globalization, Anthea Roberts calls the establishment narrative that economic globalization is a win for everyone. She says America didn't get what it wanted fully out of economic globalization or at least not yet. The good news is that the rest of the world has benefited at a faster pace and therefore it's pretty good trade-off because the US is so rich to start with. Is that a narrative you would endorse?
It was supposed to boost prosperity and democracy at the same time. What really happened? According to the legal scholar Anthea Roberts, it depends which story you believe.