Authors: Richard E. Caves
ISBN-13: 9780521860130, ISBN-10: 052186013X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2007
Edition: REV
Richard E. Caves is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles on multinational enterprise and other topics in the fields of international economics and industrial organization. He is the co-author of a leading textbook on international economics, World Trade and Payments. His most recent books deal with the arts and entertainment industries, Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce and Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting.
Incorporates the additions to our knowledge of multinationals accumulated in research in the past decade.
Preface | ||
1 | The multinational enterprise as an economic organization | 1 |
2 | The MNE and models of international economic activity | 24 |
3 | Organization and growth of the MNE | 57 |
4 | Patterns of market competition | 83 |
5 | Income distribution and labor relations | 110 |
6 | Investment behavior and financial flows | 133 |
7 | Technology and productivity | 162 |
8 | Taxation, MNEs' behavior, and economic welfare | 189 |
9 | Multinationals in developing countries | 214 |
10 | Public policy | 243 |
Bibliography | 261 | |
Name index | 307 | |
Subject index | 318 |