Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most… - Peter Dicken

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.