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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those who win never give up.Those who give up never win.

Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8, 9

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

The only thing sadder than hateful people’s willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.