Robert Gilpin

"In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization."

"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."

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

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

"Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the co…"

"the definition of international system... There is some "form of control" that regulates behavior and may range from informal rules of the system to formal institutions. ...A view prevalent among many…"

"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."

"In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed."