Robert Gilpin Quotes

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One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly. When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.

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I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

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In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

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The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

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Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

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These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

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Both the control of territory and the political domination of one state over another have profound consequences for international economic relations. However... market power or economic power has itself become a principal means by which states seek to organize and manipulate the international division of labor to their own advantage.

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The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

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The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

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Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

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Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

Robert Gilpin