The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781848134423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

William K. Carroll

Opis

Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class. Using social network analysis, this title maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: The Formation of a Transnational Corporate Community 1. Is there a transnational corporate community? 2. Forging a new hegemony: the transnational corporate-policy network, 1996 3. Global cities in the global corporate network Part II: Into the 21st Century: The Changing Organization of Corporate Power 4. Transnational accumulation and global networking 5. Transnationalists and national networkers 6. Billionaires and networkers: wealth, position, and corporate power Part III: A Transnational Historic Bloc? 7. Constituting corporate Europe 8. Consolidating the transnational corporate-policy network, 1996-2006 9. Hegemony and counter-hegemony in a global field Conclusion