Articles by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie

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Revealed – The Capitalist Network That Runs the World
Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie – New Scientist, 24 Oct 2011

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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