Introduction: The Concept of the Business Environment; 1: Globalisation; 2: Identifying Environmental Issues; 3: The Traditions of Thought in the Study of Economy and Society 1; 1: The Economy; 4: Conservative Governments and the Economy, 1979-97; 5: Finance Unbound; 6: The Management of the UK Economy; 7: A Marxist Reading of the UK Economy and Its Management; 8: Living without Borders; 9: Global Cooperation or Rival Trade Blocs?; 2: Society; 10: The Structure of Society; 11: Social Trends since World War II; 12: Changing Social Divisions: Class, Gender and Race; 13: Why Inequality Doesn't Work; 14: A New International Division of Labour?; 15: Culture and Management; 3: The State; 16: An Overview of the English Legal System; 17: Power and the State; 18: Putting the Advanced Capitalist State in Perspective; 19: Government-Business Relations in Japan and Korea; 20: Business Routes of Influence in Brussels: Exploring the Choice of Direct Representation; 21: Globalization and the Advanced Capitalist State; 4: The System? Technology, Ecology and Globalisation; 22: Creating the Corporate Future *; 23: Daniel Bell and the Information Society; 24: Global Information Infrastructure: Eliminating the Distance Barrier; 25: Globalization, New Production Concepts and Income Distribution; 26: A Road Map for Natural Capitalism; 27: Reflections on the Politics Linking Science, Environment and Innovation