Multinational Monitor
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| Frequency | Bimonthly |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ralph Nader |
| Founded | 1980 |
| First issue | Error: All values must be integers (help) |
| Company | Essential Information |
| Country |  United States |
| Based in | Washington, D.C |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0197-4637 |
| OCLC | 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.
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.
The 2005 list was BP, Delphi, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ford, Halliburton, KPMG, Roche, Suez, and W.R. Grace; the 2006 list was Abbott, Altria, BAE, Boeing, FirstEnergy, Kroger, Massey Energy, Pfizer, Smithfield, and Wal-Mart.[1]
Lawrence Summers Memorial Award
Each issue declares the bimonthly recipient of the Lawrence Summers Memorial Award, an ironic award nominally given to companies that "take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices."
The award's name alludes to Lawrence Summers, who was the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and later President of Harvard University. Lawrence Summers is the infamous Summers memo, which proposed externalizing toxic waste and pollution from developed countries to least developed countries.
The memo was written in 1991 by Summers' aide, Lant Pritchett, when Summers was the Chief Economist at World Bank. Summers later stated that the memo was meant to be satire.