The Global Economic System

Iain Wallace is Associate Professor of Geography at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Preface 1 The global economy: orientations 2 Society, the economy and the environment 3 Population and resources in an industrialized world-economy 4 The evolution of the modern world-economy 5 States and the global economic system 6 The corporation and the global production system 7 Transnational corporations in a world of sovereign states 8 The industrialized western nations in a turbulent global economy 9 Industrialized state-socialist economies 10 The Third World: varieties of underdevelopment 11 Challenges of Third World development 12 Prospects for the global economy