Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development: Volume 4: Economic Interdependence

✍ Scribed by Professor John H. Dunning, Professor Mikoto Usui (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: International Economic Association Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Organisation of International Economic Interdependence: an Historical Excursion....Pages 3-18
Interdependence: A North-South Perspective....Pages 19-29
The Political Economy of Interdependence....Pages 31-43
Can the Market Alone Manage Structural Upgrading? A Challenge Posed by Economic Interdependence....Pages 45-61
International Industrial Integration Through Multinational Enterprises....Pages 63-76
Résumé of Discussions on Part I....Pages 77-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Introduction to Part II....Pages 83-94
International Technological Diffusion, Product Differentiation and Economies of Scale....Pages 95-115
The Impact of Microelectronics on the Worldwide Restructuring of the Electronics Industry: Implications for the Third World....Pages 117-134
Domestic Technological Innovations and Dynamic Comparative Advantages: Further Reflections on a Comparative Case Study Programme....Pages 135-155
Towards Conceptualisation of Technological Development as an Evolutionary Process....Pages 157-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Introductory Comments and Summary Report on Part III....Pages 177-192
Multinationals and Technology Development in Host LDCs....Pages 193-209
Strategies of Multinational Companies in the Economic Crisis....Pages 211-225
Codes on Transnationals: Ingredients for an Effective International Regime....Pages 227-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Introduction to Part IV....Pages 243-245
International Trade of Developing Countries in the 1980s: Problems and Prospects....Pages 247-266
The Community’s Vivid Core: Integration Processes in Industrial Product Markets....Pages 267-298
Some Lessons of Economic Integration in Latin America: the Case of Central America....Pages 299-320
The Economic Integration Process in Africa: Experience, Problems and Prospects....Pages 321-336
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Economic Co-operation Among Developing Countries: Status and Prospects....Pages 337-353
Conclusions to Part IV....Pages 355-357
Back Matter....Pages 359-376

✦ Subjects

Microeconomics