附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-313) and index.
Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- A GLOBAL AND SYSTEMIC CRISIS -- A WORLDWIDE FALL IN INCOME -- STRAIGHT TALK ON THE CRISIS FROM CAMDESSUS AND CLINTON -- ESTABLISHMENT ECONOMISTS CRITICISE POLICIES DICTATED BY THE IMF, THE WORLD BANK AND THE G7 -- A FLURRY OF CORPORATE MERGERS -- WEALTH CONCENTRATED IN FEWER AND FEWER HANDS -- SO MUCH FOR PRIVATE- SECTOR EFFICIENCY -- GOVERNMENT TO THE RESCUE -- SO MUCH FOR THE ADVANTAGES OF FINANCIAL DEREGULATION
YET ANOTHER DEBT CRISIS PROGRESSIVE AND RADICAL POLICIES ARE BOTH NECESSARY AND FEASIBLE -- Introduction -- SOME COMMENTS ON THE WAY THE BOOK HAS BEEN ORGANISED -- THE BOOK'S THESES -- 1. Globalisation and the Neo- Liberal Offensive -- THE DETERIORATION IN LIVING CONDITIONS: EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES -- MASS UNEMPLOYMENT -- The Industrialised Capitalist Countries -- GROWING INEQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND A DROP IN WORKING- CLASS WAGES -- In the Third World -- In the Highly Industrialised Capitalist Countries
THE UNDP VIEW ON DECLINING LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD The Third World and Eastern Europe -- The Third World -- Eastern Europe -- The Highly Industrialised Countries -- An Innovation of the UNDP: The Creation of the Human Poverty Index (HPI) -- THE FEMINISATION OF POVERTY AND THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN -- THE GLOBALISATION OF CAPITAL: THE GROWTH OF MULTINATIONALS -- THE POLITICAL FACTOR -- Past Wage Concessions have not Created the Promised Jobs -- 2. The Concentration of Capital -- A WAVE OF CORPORATE MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS AND THE CONCENTRATION OF CAPITAL
THE 'GLOBAL VILLAGE' 3. Globalisation and Exclusion: the Marginalisation of the Third World and the Strengthening of the Triad -- INTRA- TRIAD INVESTMENT -- STRENGTHENING OF THE TRIAD -- INCREASED DEPENDENCE FOR THE THIRD WORLD -- Are Asia's Four 'Tigers' the Exception to the Rule? -- Increased Subordination of the Majority of Third World Countries to the Imperialist Centre -- Three Regional Blocs within the Triad -- The Triad Takes Centre-Stage -- Global Commerce Dominated by the Industrialised Countries -- The Scramble for MNC Investment
Multinationals take Shelter from the Market: Intra- firm Trade 4, Financial Globalisation -- INCREASE IN THE FINANCIAL ASSETS OF INDUSTRIAL MNCs -- A DRAMATISATION OF THE EFFECTS OF FINANCIALISATION ON THE BIG INDUSTRIAL HOUSES -- COMPANY FINANCIALISATION: THE EXAMPLE OF FRANCE -- A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF FINANCIALISATION AND DEREGULATION -- THE MARKET: THE NEW FAITH -- The Bank for International Settlements and Submission to the Markets -- THE DIFFERENT STAGES OF FINANCIAL DEREGULATION -- THE MAIN PLAYERS ON FINANCIAL MARKETS
