Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) Political scientist
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Five, The Politics Of International Trade, p. 171
“Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.”
Source: Protection or Free Trade? (1886), Ch. 6
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