Quotes by Robert Gilpin

Robert Gilpin

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

Actors

Economic

Use

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

Increase

Taken

Wealth

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Eras

Firsts

Political

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

America

Economy

Leader

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

Believe

Connections

Economics

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.

Cost

Patterns

Social

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

Difficult Choices

Legacy

United States

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

Believe

Historical

Running

Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

Black

Important

Long

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

Critics

Form

Imperialism

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Important

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Quotes by Robert Gilpin

Robert Gilpin

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

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

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

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.

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

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

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

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