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Quotes from The Political Economy of International Relations — Robert Gilpin

1930–2018 United States

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Japanese refer to Europe as a "museum" and America as a "farm."

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

When once asked what was missing from his classic textbook, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson is reported to have responded, "the class struggle."

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Gilpin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.