Power, Inc The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government-And the Reckoning That Lies Ahead

Name: Power, Inc The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government-And the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
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ISBN: 9780374151287

ISBN-10: 0374151288

ISBN-13: 9780374151287

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Rothkopf

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The world’s largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but 25 of the world’s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost 100 nations. The world’s largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country on the planet. A private philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, spends as much worldwide on health care as the World Health Organization. The rise of private power may be the most important and least understood trend of our time.Power, Inc.provides a fresh, timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Introduction: Bodies but No Souls



The Roots of Modern Power: The Rise of States and Corporations



The Goat with the Red Horns



1288: The Battles That Gave Birth to Modernity



1648: The Beginning of the Great Leveling



1776: Two Revolutions



1848: What Makes a State a State?



The Contest: The State Constrained, the Corporation Unbound



How the Rule of Law Backfired



Beyond Borders



The Coin of Whose Realm?



The Decline of Force



The Reckoning: Forging a New Order



Supercitizens and Semi-States



Competing Capitalisms


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index