This paper provides a short account of Stephen Hymer's life and (its link to) his contribution to the theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE), but mainly the political economy of multinational corporate capital. It suggests that as concerns the theory of the MNE, Hymer's contribution has in...

The appreciation of the consequences of financial globalization is an important task for contemporary political economy. This paper maintains that industrial and macroeconomic instability faced by many developed and developing countries is likely to be attributed, to an extent, to changes in...