The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

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.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly . When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.

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

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.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.