The Law of Sex Discrimination or Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment Unsimplified

The Law of Sex Discrimination

Author: J Ralph Lindgren

An honest and informative text on sex discrimination and the law, THE LAW OF SEX DISCRIMINATION approaches the idea of using law to combat sex discrimination from a variety of contexts; for example, as an occasion for ideological disputes, as a reflection of contemporary policy debates over the future direction of society, or as part of the historical development (and response to) feminism. Appendices that deal with the court system, a brief discussion of how to outline cases, and a glossary of legal and technical terms are included.

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Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment Unsimplified: Avoiding Simplicity, Embracing Complexity

Author: Stephen D Cohen

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world. The integrating thesis of this book is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Large companies doing business on a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. The importance of these companies continues to grow while the debate about their nature and effects remains mired in a long-standing stalemate couched in strong black and white terms. Stephen D. Cohen seeks to reconcile this impasse by analyzing multinational corporations and foreign direct investment in an eclectic, nuanced manner. The core thesis is that an accurate understanding of the nature and impact of these phenomena comes from acknowledging the dominance of heterogeneity, perceptions, and ambiguity and the paucity of universal truths. This approach should contribute significantly to both a better academic understanding and a more productive policy debate of an increasingly important element of the world economy.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations     ix
Introduction     3
Fundamentals
A Better Approach to Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations     11
Defining the Subject: Subtleties and Ambiguities     27
From Obscurity to International Economic Powerhouse: The Evolution of Multinational Corporations     41
Heterogeneity: The Many Kinds of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations and Their Disparate Effects     62
Perceptions and Economic Ideologies     93
The Strategy of Multinationals
Why Companies Invest Overseas     117
Where Multinational Corporations Invest and Don't Invest and Why     148
Impact on the International Order
Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Less Developed Countries: Vagaries, Variables, Negatives, and Positives     179
Why and How Multinational Corporations Have Altered International Trade     205
Multinational Corporations versus the Nation-State: Has Sovereignty Been Outsourced?     233
The International Regulation of Multinational Corporations: Why There Is No Multilateral Foreign Direct Investment Regime     252
The Case for Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations     283
The Case against Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations     308
An AgnosticConclusion: "It Depends"     332
Recommendations
An Agenda for Future Action     355
Index     365