This paper presents a detailed description of how the Flow of Funds' foreign sector asset and liability account is derived. The statistics found in the Flow of Funds' (FOF) foreign sector are related to the Commerce Department's U.S. International Investment Position (IIP) tabulation; a survey...

At the recent Financial Times Conference on Telecommunications and the European Business Market: the Perspectives for Change, two of the contributors examined the question of whether companies should "make" their own private telecommunications network, or "buy" a publicly-offered service. The...

Debates about the role of capitalist corporations depend ultimately on their response to the enduring question of 'who controls the large modern corporation'. This article aims to identify various competing schools of thought that can be classified as 'managerialist' and 'anti-managerialist',...

Kuwait has made an impressive recovery from the damage and disruptions caused by the Iraqi invasion in 1990, as evidenced by the restoration of basic economic and social services, the recovery of the oil sector, the rehabilitation of infrastructure, and the steady reduction in the fiscal and...