马歇尔计划的设计师查尔斯·金德尔伯格（Charles Kindleberger）认为20世纪30年代国际秩序的崩溃是因为美国没有提供与其世界主宰性强国的地缘政治地位相符的全球公共品。
Charles Kindleberger, an architect of the Marshall Plan, blamed the breakdown of the international order in the 1930s on America’s failure to match its provision of global public goods to its new geopolitical status as the world’s dominant power.