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

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

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

These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

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.

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