Essay About Collective Greed And New Products

Globalization And Transnational Corporations
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GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
Economic integration as a hallmark of globalization
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FDI increase
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Increase of international currency transactions
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Growth of marginal courtiers
Global blessing or contagious disease?
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Asian crisis
Capitalism not yet fully globalized?
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Core of the economy –30 countries: Asian Pacific, Western Europe, North America
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Geopolitical changes: Soviet Union demise
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Unequal development of technology
Global labor, multinational companies and human right
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Humanitarian concerns in Asia
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Authoritarian governments’ pacifying policy
“ Globaphobia ”
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US and Western European wages and jobs
WAWASAN 2020 by William Greider
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Corporations’ thirst to reduce costs
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Political transactions of poor countries against the principles of free market
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Special favors in commerce: state subsidies, exemption form taxation, government suppression of workers, no import duties.
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Primitive cultures and modernity
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Multinational corporations and the problem of insecurity
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Global jobs auction
THE JOYS OF GLOBAL INVESTMENT by T.C. Fishman
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The movement of American money into stocks across borders( increase by 600% to $1.5 trillion in 1994)
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Investing in international stocks directly, through mutual funds or pension accounts.
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Two new products: global funds, and international funds
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The assets of those funds (growth from $ 5.2 billion to $ 264 billion in 1996)
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Stocks and international investors in former Eastern bloc, Asia, Africa
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Collective greed and collective fear
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US and Western European