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...BARNET AND MUELLER'S Global Reach is the first attempt to synthesize recent research on multinationals from a radical perspective and to develop a set of specific political strategies to combat their power in American society. Barnet and Mueller believe that the 1960s saw a crucial shift in both the operations and the orientation of the giant oligopolistic corporations that dominate the American economy. In that period, a new breed of "global managers" arose who no longer see the national economy as the natural focus of corporate interests. Instead they aspire to organize and direct the world economy on their...
...same time as the directors of multinational corporations seek to transcend the limits of national economies and states, they offer a promise of prosperity, peace and economic development for all. And they claim that only their innovative technological and organizational abilities can lead to this end. Barnet and Mueller refute the claim that multinationals (or "global corporations," as they prefer to call them, to emphasize the national limits within which they recruit their executives) are engines of development, by examining their impact on the economies of the Third World. Drawing on conventional leftist analyses of the causes of underdevelopment, Barnet...
...novel aspect of Barnet and Mueller's argument is their claim that the growing independence of the global corporations from the American economy has reproduced in the U.S. many of the characteristics of underdeveloped countries, a process they term the "latin-americanization of the United States." Since the global corporations are no longer committed to the U.S. economy, they invest a larger portion of their capital in other countries, particularly in Western Europe, and draw an increasing proportion of their profits from foreign sales. Equally importantly, they have begun to remove blue-collar jobs from the U.S. into low-wage...
...LEONA and JERROLD SCHECTER and EVELIND, STEVEN, KATE, DOVEEN and BARNET...
Although the alumni colleges do not hold exams or give grades, most insist on serious academic work. Stanford sends its applicants a five-book reading list (including Richard Barnet's Roots of War and Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect) in the spring. But some programs take a less intellectual approach. For instance, about 85 adults have signed up for a seven-day course in crime and justice at the University of Oregon this month. In one class a private detective is scheduled to demonstrate how to protect a house from burglars. Many of Oregon...