Controlled Quote by Robert Gilpin

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

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

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

— Robert Gilpin

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

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

— Robert Gilpin

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

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

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

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

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

— Robert Gilpin

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

— Robert Gilpin

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