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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450970203321

Autore

Wallace Iain <1946, >

Titolo

The global economic system / / Iain Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Boston : , : Unwin Hyman, , 1990

ISBN

1-134-88722-1

0-585-45308-X

1-280-32135-0

0-203-41935-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic history

Capitalism - History

Socialism - History

Electronic books.

Developing countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of tables; The global economy: orientations; Society, the economy and the environment; Population and resources in an industrialized world-economy; The evolution of the modern world-economy; States and the global economic system; The corporation and the global production system; Transnational corporations in a world of sovereign states; The industrialized western nations in a turbulent global economy; Industrialized state-socialist economies; The Third World: varieties of underdevelopment; Challenges of Third World development

Prospects for the global economyBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments.