GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Barcode, Ahold, Mantra
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Lecture 10: global corporations (wal-mart as an example) More than any other single institution, the transnational corporation has come to be regarded as the primary shaper of the contemporary global economy. Global corporations: it"s the real thing : i"d like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love, grow apple trees and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves. I"d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, i"d like to buy the world a coke and keep it company. It"s the real thing, coke is what the world wants today. The multinational corporation (mnc) and space: almost as old as capitalism itself: british hudson bay co. , british east. Indian co. , dutch east indian co: marx predicted growing size of corporations would cause the collapse of capitalism, started in the 1600s and onwards, by the mid 19th century, carl marx, recognized the power of those corporations.
