Charles P. Kindleberger is widely regarded as among the most
accessible and intelligent practitioners of the economist's craft.
This collection of his papers and lectures, articles and reviews,
prepared over the past decade, focuses on the role of multinational
corporations in the international economy, their relationships with
home and host countries (both developed and less developed), the
determinants of their size, the impetus to their investment
behavior, their history, the literature about them, and their
regulation.Chapters relate the phenomenon of the multinational
corporation to the body of economic theory. They discuss
multinational corporations in world affairs, size of firm and size
of nation, the clash of economics and sociology and politics in the
internationalization of business, restrictions on direct investment
in host countries, direct investment in less developed countries
and in militant developing nations, ownership and contract in
international business, and multinationals and the small open
economy.The origins of United States direct investment in France,
and international banks and international business are taken up,
followed by Kindleberger's reviews of major books on the
multinational corporation and including his criticisms of such
popular writing as Barnet and Moller's Global Reach, and Magdoff's
Age of Imperialism.Kindleberger's policy statements before various
national and international governments, in which he proposes the
creation of a loose framework among national authorities to
harmonize policies toward the multinational corporation are also
included.Charles P. Kindleberger is Ford International Professor of
Economics Emeritus, MIT and Visiting Professor, Brandeis
University.
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