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. — 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 position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline. — 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 the decline… — Robert Gilpin 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 there could… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another. — 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 plus to… — 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 of the… — 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 hegemonic war. — 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 relatively immobile. — Robert Gilpin 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 nature of… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. — 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 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 itself is… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
