Multinational Monitor
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| Frequency | Bimonthly |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ralph Nader |
| Year founded | 1980 |
| First issue | 1980 |
| Company | Essential Information |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Washington, D.C |
| Language | English |
| Website |
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| ISSN | 0197-4637 |
| OCLC number | 644110798 |
The Multinational Monitor is a bimonthly magazine founded by Ralph Nader in 1980. It is published by Essential Information. Although its primary focus is on analysis of corporations, it also publishes articles on labor issues and occupational safety and health, the environment, globalization, privatization, the global economy, and developing nations.
The magazine is non-profit and advertising-free.
The last issue (according to the magazine's web-site) had a coverdate of May/June 2009; this magazine may now be permanently defunct, though the web-site still contains a very thorough archive of past issues.
Recurring features
10 Worst Corporations
Since 1992 Multinational Monitor has published an annual index recapping the activities and policies of ten corporations who demonstrated particularly egregious behavior.
Lawrence Summers Memorial Award
Each issue declares the bimonthly recipient of the Lawrence Summers Memorial Award, an award given in satirical honor of Lawrence Summers, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and later President of Harvard University, given to companies that "take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices." The award refers to the infamous Summers memo written by Summers' aide Lant Pritchett in 1991, when Summers was the World Bank's Chief Economist. The memo advocated transferring toxic waste and pollution from developed countries to least developed countries. (Summers later stated the memo was meant to be satire.)