On the alleged national or ethnic neutrality of corporations transnational corporations. A mini reading of Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans Cover Image

Despre pretinsa neutralitate naţională sau etnică a corporaţiilor transnaţionale. O mini lectură a lui Ha – Joon Chang Bad Samaritans
On the alleged national or ethnic neutrality of corporations transnational corporations. A mini reading of Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans

Author(s): Mihail M. Ungheanu
Subject(s): National Economy, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Financial Markets, Business Ethics
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: neoliberal; myth; transnational corporations; state protectionism;

Summary/Abstract: The south-korean economist living and teaching in Cambridge exposes the false myth that lies in the core of the neolibar economic dogma these days. One of this lies is the idea that capital and transnational coroporation are ethinc neutral and that a free market economy will bring prosperity to all nations, if and only if these nations open their markets and give up all form of protectionsim, state intervention and regulations, etc.. Another distructive myth that is presented as uncontensted truth is that the rich and developet countries have succeded in their endavours thanks to such free-market economies, while the opposite is true: they have succeded with help of protectionist and nationalsitic policies, economical espionage, colonialism, etc., not with the help of free-market and free-trade policies. Capital and transnational corporations always have an ethnic component and are not ethinc neutral.

  • Issue Year: 2/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 1-7
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian