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The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

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Japanese refer to Europe as a "museum" and America as a "farm."

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It would be premature to suggest that the nation-state is dead or dying.

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A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

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Ultimately... the hierarchy of prestige in an international system rests on economic and military power.

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

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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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A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

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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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Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

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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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How can the human race, whether for selfish or more cosmopolitan ends, understand and control the seemingly blind forces of history?

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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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The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

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When once asked what was missing from his classic textbook, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson is reported to have responded, "the class struggle."

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Until the modern era there was no single international system, but rather several international systems, with little or no contact with another.

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Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.

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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 clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

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Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

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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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The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

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The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

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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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In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.

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