"The advantage of national planning is its ability to remove the wastes of oligopolistic anarchy, i.e. meaningless product differentiation and an imbalance between different industries within a geographical area. It concentrates all levels of decision making in one locale and thus provide each region with a full complement of skills and occupations. This opens up new horizons of local development by making possible the social and political control of economic decision-making. Multinational corporations, in contrast, weaken political control because they span many countries and can escape national regulation."
By:  | Stephen Hymer (more quotes by Stephen Hymer or books by/about Stephen Hymer)  | 
Source:  | "The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development", in J. Bhagwati (Ed.), Economics and World Order from the 1970s to the 1990s (Collier-Macmillan, 1972)  | 
Categories:  | Centralization, Collectivist, Foreign Policy, Government, Law, Politics, Power, Statism  | 
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