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Mira Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914-1945. Wilkins includes all long-term inward foreign investments, both portfolio (by individuals and institutions) and direct (by multinationals), across such enterprises as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textiles, insurance, banks and mortgage providers, other service sector companies, and mining and oil industries. She traces the complex course of inward investments, presents the experiences of the investors, and examines the political and economic conditions, particularly the range of public policies, that affected foreign investments. She also offers valuable discussions on the intricate cross-investments of inward and outward involvements and the legal precedents that had long-term consequences on foreign investment. At the start of World War I, the United States was a debtor nation. By the end of World War II, it was a creditor nation with the strongest economy in the world. Integrating economic, business, technological, legal, and diplomatic history, this comprehensive study is essential to understanding the internationalization of the American economy, as well as broader global trends.

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This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s through the first three decades of the twentieth century. However, their role did not persist, and by 1978 multinational enterprises in this sector had all but disappeared, replaced by electrical utility providers with national business structures. Yet, in recent years, there has been a vigorous revival. This book, a co-operative effort by the three authors and a group of experts from many countries, offers an analysis of the history of multinational enterprise. The authors take an integrated approach, not simply comparing national electrification experiences, but supplying a truly global account.

Direktinvestition. --- Electric utilities --- Electric utilities. --- Electrification --- Elektrifizierung. --- Elektrizitätswirtschaft. --- Energiepolitik. --- Power resources --- Power resources. --- History. --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES -- 620 --- INTERNATIONAL FINANCE -- 620 --- ELECTRIFICATION -- 620 --- Services publics d'électricité --- Ressources énergétiques --- Histoire --- Aspect économique --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Electric power distribution --- Electric power production --- Electric companies --- Electric light and power industry --- Electric power industry --- Electric industries --- Public utilities --- Arts and Humanities --- History