Restrictive Business Practices, Transnational Corporations, and Development: A Survey

Problems of development in what is normally called the Third World have been a subject matter of concern of the social sciences, lespecially of eco­ nomics, for over two decades now. 1 Between the late 1950s and the current time, as Chapter 2 attempts to show, the emphasis seems to have shifted from purely economic considerations of underdevelopment to a paradigm that includes other, extra-economic considerations of a social, political, and cultural nature. The recent emergence of developme...