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

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

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

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.

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

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.