Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- The global economy: orientations -- Society, the economy and the environment -- Population and resources in an industrialized world-economy -- The evolution of the modern world-economy -- States and the global economic system -- The corporation and the global production system -- Transnational corporations in a world of sovereign states -- The industrialized western nations in a turbulent global economy -- Industrialized state-socialist economies -- The Third World: varieties of underdevelopment -- Challenges of Third World development -- Prospects for the global economy -- Bibliography -- Index.