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.
Robert GilpinThe competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.
Robert GilpinIn 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 GilpinIn short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.
Robert Gilpin