Robert Gilpin Quotes

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

The idea that America is the best place in the world to start out poor, so long as you are willing to work hard, no longer seems to be true. One way of proving that is to ask how accurately your family's income when you were growing up predicted what your own would be. If the American dream were alive, your family's income would not predict your own that well…. Well, on that measure, America is now less the land of opportunity than France, than Germany, than Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The only other rich economy that the U.S. outscores in this respect is — you guessed it — the UK. Abolish the estate tax and America will be a serious contender for the bottom of the opportunity league.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

Although globalization is inexorable, its benefits are not.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

As economic globalization brings more states into the global economy, … the first fruits of the process will often fall to those groups best positioned by history or culture to take advantage of the new opportunities for enrichment, deepening social cleavages rather than filling them in.

We ask ourselves, why are Americans, the world’s best customers, paying the worlds highest prices?

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years” than gross domestic product.

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is nothing inherently bad about inequality. Whether it is bad depends on how it comes about and what it does.

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.