The Global Economic System

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 economy.