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“The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Six, Multinational Corporations, p. 260

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“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.”

Robert Gilpin

Introduction, p. 4
The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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“Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 14

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“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.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 19

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“The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 85

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“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.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 8

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

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 304

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“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.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Eight, International Finance, p. 336

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“Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 274

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“The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Nine, transformation Of The Global Economy, p. 362

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“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.”

Robert Gilpin

Introduction, p. 3
The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

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