http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
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 study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but
complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique
effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis
further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global
capitalism more stable.
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 (TNCs).
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