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World, Incorporated: The History of the Supra-National Corporation and its Global Stranglehold on Freedom and Democracy
World, Incorporated: The History of the Supra-National Corporation and its Global Stranglehold on Freedom and Democracy
World, Incorporated: The History of the Supra-National Corporation and its Global Stranglehold on Freedom and Democracy
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It has become a truism in politics that "corporations have become too powerful". Few people understand, however, that there has been a vast shift in global power between 1990 and 2010; corporate power has now exceeded national power and global economic structures now have unchecked control over democratic governments. Power has passed to multi-national corporations who have no country, owe allegiance to no government, and answer to no nation. They have become supra-national. This book is a history of corporations, as they grew from small tightly-controlled public works to huge quasi-governmental behemoths who now have literal veto power over elected national governments.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherLenny Flank
Release dateJun 14, 2014
ISBN9781310368042
World, Incorporated: The History of the Supra-National Corporation and its Global Stranglehold on Freedom and Democracy
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Lenny Flank

Longtime social activist, labor organizer, environmental organizer, antiwar.

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