-3,468 1970 8,169 -7,590 -3,177 -4,4131972 10,949 -7,747 -4,532 -3,2151973 16,542 -11,353 -8,158 -3,1951974 19,157 -9,052 -7,777 -1,2751975 16,595 -14,244 -8,048 -6,1961976 18,999 -11,949 -7,696 -4,2531977 19,673 -11,890 -6,396 -5,4941978 24,458 -16,056 -11,343 -4,7131979 38,183 -25,222 -18,965 -6,2571980 37,150 -19,238 -17,017 -2,2211981 32,549 -8,691 -12,978 +4,2871982 21,381 +2,3691983 20,499 -3731984 21,509 -3,8581985 34,320 -14,065________________________________________________________________________source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, June 1982, Table 1466.________________________________________________________________________Summarizing: -transnational capital, thorough merging and acquisitions, is becoming more concentrated, more monopolic capital, in the 1990s-transnational capital is strenghtening its grip on spheres of influence, following the pattern known as The Triad-transnational capital is not playing the role of engine of growth but rather of engines to suck capital from the host economies-transnational capital is slowing down rates of growth in both developed and developing countries.ARE CLUSTERS AGAINST STANDARD ECONOMIC THEORY?UNCTAD is very clear about regional investment clusters, and particularly about the continuing pattern of clustering of host countries in a region around a single home Triad member located in the same region.UNCTAD adds: "According to theory, clustering is unlikely to occur: the dist...
