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Hindsight is always a major problem in historical exposition. In the context of direct foreign investment in the United Kingdom or most other countries it is possible to impute a degree of rationality and planning both on the part of the foreign enterprises and the British government which simply did not exist at the time the key decisions were made.
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Livingstone, J.M. (1989). The Pros and Cons of Direct Foreign Investment. In: The Internationalization of Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20247-8_7
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