Economics Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It…

— Bruce D. Porter

“despite the absence of a real state monopoly on violence, early states were much more formidable structures than chiefdoms. And everywhere they appear, they…

— David Christian

“The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no…

— Simone Weil

“At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even a minimal…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein

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

— Robert Gilpin

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led but not…

— Greg Grandin

“The institutional dynamics we have described ultimately determined which countries took advantage of the major opportunities present in the nineteenth century onward and which…

— Daron Acemoğlu

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the…

— John Boyd Orr

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

— Kenichi Ohmae

“What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a stabilization of inequality at an extremely high level, and in certain respects an…

— Thomas Piketty