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. — 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 of international relations. — 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
