I dont remember how I got to this link but it seems related to tis thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05R_Ehwt7FI&feature=related
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Richard Wright < [email protected]> wrote: > Half of these companies I've never even heard of. > I am particularly worried by the company called "Dodge & Cox"... > > > > *From: *dave miller <[email protected]> > *Date: *11 March 2012 12:15:47 GMT > *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > *Subject: **[NetBehaviour] newscientist - analysis shows a small group of > companies control the global economy* > *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed > –the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html > > “AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, > science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of > the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has > identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with > disproportionate power over the global economy. > > The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global > economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street > movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex > systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in > Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify > such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to > model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map > ownership among the world’s transnational corporations.” > > The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies > 1. Barclays plc > 2. Capital Group Companies Inc > 3. FMR Corporation > 4. AXA > 5. State Street Corporation > 6. JP Morgan Chase & Co > 7. Legal & General Group plc > 8. Vanguard Group Inc > 9. UBS AG > 10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc > 11. Wellington Management Co LLP > 12. Deutsche Bank AG > 13. Franklin Resources Inc > 14. Credit Suisse Group > 15. Walton Enterprises LLC > 16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp > 17. Natixis > 18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc > 19. T Rowe Price Group Inc > 20. Legg Mason Inc > 21. Morgan Stanley > 22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc > 23. Northern Trust Corporation > 24. Société Générale > 25. Bank of America Corporation > 26. Lloyds TSB Group plc > 27. Invesco plc > 28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA > 30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company > 31. Aviva plc > 32. Schroders plc > 33. Dodge & Cox > 34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc* > 35. Sun Life Financial Inc > 36. Standard Life plc > 37. CNCE > 38. Nomura Holdings Inc > 39. The Depository Trust Company > 40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance > 41. ING Groep NV > 42. Brandes Investment Partners LP > 43. Unicredito Italiano SPA > 44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan > 45. Vereniging Aegon > 46. BNP Paribas > 47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc > 48. Resona Holdings Inc > 49. Capital Group International Inc > 50. China Petrochemical Group Company > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Skype: Dithernoise UK: 0044 (0) 7887561945 / IT: 00393490910263 www.simonlongo.com / www.dithernoise.net / www.visual-rhythms.net
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