Princeton-historicus Harold James heeft erop gewezen dat de rollen inmiddels waren omgedraaid: de VS hadden de argumenten van Keynes overgenomen, maar de Europese crediteurenlanden en Japan hebben zich daar met succes tegen verzet.
As the Princeton University historian Harold James has pointed out, the tables had turned: the US had taken up Keynes’s arguments, but creditor European countries, along with Japan, successfully resisted them.