But there was no integrated national economy.
You are missing the drivers for a modern developed and integrated economy : society and expectations.
"Despite the huge benefits" of the system, he argues, "an open and integrated global economy is neither as extensive and inexorable nor as irreversible as many assume."
Can this be an opportunity to create a more integrated regional economy, one with better mass transit?
The SPP is an agreement between the leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico to work towards a more integrated North American economy and security region.
Its development in the 1970s was closely associated with periods of petro-dollar recycling but, probably more important, it is the direct result of increased integration of national economies into a truly integrated international economy.
Both sides must work together to develop a dynamic, new, integrated economy to take full advantage of this stunning opportunity.
The study said the policies and institutions of the 20th century no longer offered protection in a more complex and integrated global economy.
This only goes to show that the development of a new, integrated economy in the European Union brings a host of dangers in its wake.
In Europe's increasingly integrated economy, the competition to dominate its business media has become increasingly important and heated.