Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Part I. Fundamentals: 1. A better approach to understanding foreign direct investment and multinational corporations ; 2. Defining the subject: subtleties and ambiguities ; 3. From obscurity to international economic powerhouse: the evolution of multinational corporations ; 4. Heterogeneity: the many kinds of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations--and their disparate effects ; 5. Perceptions and economic ideologies -- Part II. The strategy of multinationals: 6. Why companies invest overseas ; 7. Where multinational corporations invest and don’t invest and why -- Part III. Impact on the international order: 8. Effects of foreign direct investment on ¿less developed¿ countries: vagaries, variables, negatives, and positives ; 9. Why and how multinational corporations have altered international trade ; 10. Multinational corporations versus the nation state: has sovereignty been outsourced? ; 11. The international regulation of multinational corporations: why there is no multilateral foreign direct investment regime -- Part IV: Three bottom lines: 12. The case for foreign direct investment and multinational corporations ; 13. The case against foreign direct investment and multinational corporations ; 14. An agnostic conclusion: it depends -- Part V: Recommendations: 15. An agenda for future action.