Western Europe's move toward political union / Volker Bornschier -- Tying up the Luxembourg package of 1985 / Patrick Ziltener -- The origins of the Single Market / Nicola Fielder -- Esprit and technology corporatism / Simon Parker -- EC regional policy: monetary lubricant for economic...

Recent cross-national studies that analyze the impact of multinational corporations in the world economy on economic growth and inequality in peripheral and core countries have been interpreted as empirical tests of "dependencia" theories. Such a limited interpretation does not fully acknowledge...