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1 online resource (407 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction. The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s -- The rationale and the world stage -- The actors on the world stage: The Brandt commission -- The backstage distorters of development: The multinationals and their planetary vision -- The planetary perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Development vs. Dependency -- Decolonisation, the third world, and UNCTAD |
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Development and the concept of underdevelopment -- The liberal development approach -- The neo-Marxist dependence approach -- At the crossroads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Distorters of Development: The Multinational Corporations -- The agents of change -- Distorters of development -- Resistance -- The UN as an arena -- Flower season -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The G77 and the NIEO: The Contours of a New World Order -- The oil and the power and powerlessness of the poor -- The new international economic order |
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The limits to growth and reshaping the international order: Arguments for one world -- The Lomé convention -- The reactions to the NIEO in the north, and the north/south ""Dialogue"" in Paris -- The ambiguities of the NIEO -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. The Great Transformation of the 1970s and 1980s -- The great transformation between 1965 and 1990 -- Reconceptualisation for a new trade regime -- The reconceptualisation and reorganisation of labour markets -- The dollar and the unfettering of monetary and financial markets -- The trilateral commission and the road to low-intensity democracy |
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Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. A Commission against World Poverty -- The origin -- Convincing the Third World -- The commission and its secretariat -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Literature -- 7. A Commission for a New World Order -- Work on the idea -- The first commission crisis -- Consolidation and conflict lines -- The second commission crisis -- Completing the report -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Literature -- 8. Proposal for a New Keynesian World Order but Where Are the Multinationals? -- A programme for survival -- Mutual interests |
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World population, labour migration, environment, and disarmament -- Development and resources -- A global monetary and financial order -- The vision and the implementation -- A programme for survival of who? -- The reception -- The Brandt report in its time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Literature -- 9. Cancún: From Utopia to Apology. The Opening towards a Neoliberal Global Market Order -- Towards Cancún -- Cancún -- Report 2: Common crisis -- From utopia to apology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Literature |
| Summary |
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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10. The Follow-up Commissions for Planetary Policies and the Final Farce |
| Subject |
Economic development.
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International relations.
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economic development.
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international relations.
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Economic development
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International relations
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000834086 |
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1000834085 |
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