After the 9-11 terrorist attacks, many scholars felt that the US economy had suffered a severe blow that would temporarily slow the pace of globalization, but many others have worried that if capitalism were to lose its capacity for self-regulation, we might see the appearance of what has been predicted by Nan Fang Shuo: a world run by big money interests.
九一一事件之後，雖有不少學者認為，資本主義龍頭老大美國遭遇重挫，全球化趨勢會暫緩；但也有不少人憂心，如果資本主義的自制力量失序，就可能走向南方朔所預測的「全球金錢野蠻化」。