Big business and the economic cycle : TNCs' impact on production, employment, and investment / Andrei Yudanov.

Tables include detailed economic statistics.

Title on verso t.p.: Bolʹshoĭ biznes i ėkonomicheskiĭ t︠s︡ikl.

Chapter I. Privileged groups of monopoly capital and the economic cycle -- Chapter II. TNC anti-crisis strategy and forms of the external economic expansion -- Chapter III. TNC use of the international advantages of financial coherence -- Chapter IV. TNCs on international and national levels: two profiles of cyclical development, two types of impact on the cycle -- Chapter V. The origins of the "British disease" -- Chapter VI. The growing instability on investment -- Chapter VII. The TNCs and cyclical unemployment

"Andrei Yudanov traces the activity of transnational corporations at the various stages of economic cycles in the West. He shows that the most important feature of TNCs' cyclical development is their ability to overcome economic upheavals easier than do the rest of the business community....The author also examines the TNCs' influence on employment and investment patterns through the economic cycle. Numerous data about leading TNCs of the USA, West Germany, Great Britain and Italy come under consideration, and annual company business reports are used as sources of statistics." -- From the dust cover

Translated from Russian.