Quotes from Robert Gilpin

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

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

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.

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

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

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

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.