The Influence of Experience and Deliberate Practice on the Development of Superior Expert Performance

Abstract

The demonstrations accompanying the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last fall show that global capitalism indeed faces many big challenges. Although Gilpin proclaims the merits of globalization, his analysis is scholarly and dispassionate. He warns that the international capitalist system requires a "strong and wise" leadership to promote international cooperation and establish and enforce rules regulating international trade, investment, and monetary affairs. He also emphasizes the need for that leadership to "ensure at least minimal safeguards for the inevitable losers from market forces and from the process of creative destruction." Gilpin is a professor emeritus at Princeton and the author of The Political Economy of International Relations (1987). His focus now is also political as he looks at how the international economy has been shaped by the cold war and affected by European and Asian regionalism and by the collapse of the Soviet Union. [David Rouse]