Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

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 clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.