"The advantage of national planning is its ability to remove the wastes
of oligopolistic anarchy, i.e. meaningless product differentiation and
an imbalance between different industries within a geographical area. It
concentrates all levels of decision making in one locale and thus
provide each region with a full complement of skills and occupations.
This opens up new horizons of local development by making possible the
social and political control of economic decision-making. Multinational
corporations, in contrast, weaken political control because they span
many countries and can escape national regulation."
-- Stephen Hymer, "The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven
Development", in J. Bhagwati (Ed.), Economics and World Order from the
1970s to the 1990s (Collier-Macmillan, 1972); reprinted in in H. Radice
(Ed.), International Firms and Modern Imperialism (Penguin, 1975), p.
52.