"The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests."

--

Source : "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

Robert Gilpin

#Dream Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Impact Quotes

“In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.”
“Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.”

Source : James Broughton (1988). “75 Life Lines”
“What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.”

Source : "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.
“I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.”
“Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'”
“You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.”

Source : Source: www.nba.com
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”

You may also like:

Charles P. Kindleberger
Author
Edward Hallett Carr
Journalist
Fareed Zakaria
Journalist
Hans Morgenthau
Correspondent
John Mearsheimer
Professor
Joseph Nye
Political Scientist
Joseph Stiglitz
Economist
Kenneth Waltz
Political Scientist
Stephen Walt
Professor