A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth. — Robert Gilpin Economics Copy Share Image
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another. — Robert Gilpin Actors Copy Share Image
Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed. — Robert Gilpin Choices Copy Share Image
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy. — Robert Gilpin Concentration Copy Share Image
The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market… — Robert Gilpin Economics Copy Share Image
Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the… — Robert Gilpin America Copy Share Image
The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Abstract Copy Share Image
These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that power and security are the sole or even the most important objectives of mankind; as a… — Robert Gilpin Beauty Copy Share Image
The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from… — Robert Gilpin Administration Copy Share Image
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained… — Robert Gilpin Corporations Copy Share Image
The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline… — Robert Gilpin Decline Copy Share Image
