 In his book "How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor" (2007), Reinert criticises liberal economists for ignoring empirical evidence when they promote free-trade as the solution to third world countries.He claims poor countries should, and should be allowed to, use protectionism to build up their own industries until they can compete internationally and that the state should be involved in this process.Much of The Others Canon's criticism of the mainstream economics regards the focus on equilibrium and the static, as well as what the neoclassical models takes as given (perfect information, perfect foresight, constant returns to scale and no diversity/likeness of economic activity).