“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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