CHAPTER 8Dreaming of Global Empires
The world economy has become more integrated. But to travel is not the same as to arrive. Full integration will be reached only when there is free movement of goods, services, capital and labour and when governments treat firms equally, regardless of their nationality.
—THE ECONOMIST
The men who run the global corporations are the first in history with the organization, technology, money, and ideology to make a credible try at managing the world as an integrated economic unit. . . . What they are demanding in essence is the right to transcend the nation-state, and in the process, transform it.
—RICHARD J. BARNET and RONALD E. MULLER
The past two decades have seen the most rapid and sweeping institutional transformation ...
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