Robert Gilpin - Economy Quotes

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Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?

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The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

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The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

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The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

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Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

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Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

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