If something unites orthodox and unorthodox dependentistas, it is the view that dependency is a "pervasive set of transactions that condition all aspects of a society's character and behavior" (Krasner, 42). Therein lies a second fatal error. Dependency analysis emphasizes the interdependence of economic and political relations, but it does so in an overly economistic way. Its analysis does not grant underdeveloped states political autonomy of action. Rather, policy-making elites in Asia, Latin America and Africa are depicted as allies and puppets of First World economic interests. Again, this is a case where empirical developments have demolished one of the pillars of the movement's theoretical edifice: the vigorous political demands made by Third World leaders in the 1970s for a New International Economic Order could not be squared with dependency arguments.