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.

Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.

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

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

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.

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.