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The world''s largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world''s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred 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 Bill and Melinda 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. David Rothkopf provides a fresh, timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states. Beginning with the story of an inquisitive Swedish goat wandering off from his master and inadvertently triggering the birth of the oldest company still in existence, Power, Inc. follows the rise and fall of kings and empir

Power Inc The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Governmentand the Reckoning That Lies Ahead

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: 1/5/2013 12:03:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780374533670, 978-0374533670
      ISBN10: 0374533679
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      Economic history History of specific companies / corporate history Central / national / federal government policies

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The world''s largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world''s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred 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 Bill and Melinda 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. David Rothkopf provides a fresh, timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states. Beginning with the story of an inquisitive Swedish goat wandering off from his master and inadvertently triggering the birth of the oldest company still in existence, Power, Inc. follows the rise and fall of kings and empir

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