Clergyman's

“A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.”
— Robert Gilpin

“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.”
— 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

“Japanese refer to Europe as a ""museum"" and America as a ""farm.”
— Robert Gilpin

“The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.”
— 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 the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.”
— 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 minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.”
— Robert Gilpin

“One of the principal functions of war, and particularly... hegemonic war, is to determine the international hierarchy of prestige and thereby determine which states will in effect govern the international system.”
— 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 forces at work in the world.”
— Robert Gilpin

“The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational , the capitalist system itself is irrational.”
— 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 of clearly defined political leadership.”
— Robert Gilpin

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