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2012-02-07

Exposing the Davos Class

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For a version on these infographics that's easier to read online, consulta here: http://prezi.com/b5ixjousebjd/the-global-0001/)

Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

The economic, social and ecological crises humanity face are no accident, but a result of policies pursued by a small corporate elite - best known as the Davos class - that has systematically hijacked political and economic policy throughout the world.

TNI, as part of its new Corporate Power project, is producing a series of infographics over 2012 that expose the reality of corporate power, and our need to fundamentally change direction. Please download and share these infographics, and watch out for new ones over the coming months.

	Introduction to the Davos Class Susan George The Davos class run our major institutions and know exactly what they want, but they face a huge crisis of legitimacy because their ideology isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.
	Planet Earth: A Corporate Run World Which are the biggest companies in the world? Which corporations control them? How does their power compare with states? > Interactive presentation \| Large image \| Download PDF
	The Global 0.001% Just 10.9 million people, or 0.15%, control $42.7 trillion dollars or two thirds of world GDP. An even tinier group of people, 0.001%, control a third of that amount. Where are they based? What could this money pay for? > Interactive presentation \| View as image \| Download PDF
	The World's Richest Men Who are they and how did they make their money? Which are the best countries to be rich in? (Version revised: 25 Jan 2012) > Interactive presentation \| View as image \| Download PDF
	Neoliberal architects A global economy that has benefited a small elite is no accident: it was carefully designed by politicians who often worked for transnational corporations and at times were rewarded by them after leaving office. > View as image \| Download PDF

Sources

Planet Earth: A Corporate World

Top 25 companies based on revenues: Forbes, April 2011

Top 25 companies based on ownership and control: Vitali, Glattfelder, and Battiston, The Network of Global Corporate Control, 2011

Corporations more powerful than nations: Nations' GDP from IMF website; company revenue from Fortune 500

Location of Top 200 corporations and number of Top 500 corporations per country: Fortune 500

The global 0.001%

Extreme wealth and Geography of the Rich: Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, World Wealth Report 2011

An unequal world: Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, Global inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion , UNICEF April 2011 f

What would $42.7 billion pay for?

US-Iraq War: direct costs so far have been $800 billion but indirect costs could top $4 trillion, MarketWatch, December 2011
US space programme: US White House website
Gulfstream Executive Jet: Business & Commercial Aviation's
2010 Purchase Planning Handbook
Universal primary and secondary education: Calculated from http://www.amacad.org/publications/cohen_intro.pdf, p.3,22
Meeting UN Millennium Development Goal on Clean Water: UNESCO website
Climate change adaptation: UNFCCC (2008). Investment and Financial Flows to Address Climate Change. UNFCCC, Bonn

World's top billionaires and sectors the wealth came from: Forbes.com, March 2011

Case study of Carlos Slim: Outing the oligarchy - billionaires who benefit from today’s climate crisis, International Forum on Globalization (IFG)

Tax rates in different OECD countries: Center of Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org/

Tax evasion costs: Tax Justice Network, Cost of Tax Abuse, November 2011

Neoliberal architects

Alan Greenspan:

Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, October 23, 2008.
Reuters, September 22, 2008; Marketwatch, September 26, 2008.

Anatoly Chubais

Ken I. Kim and Anna Yelkina, Privatization in Russia: Its Past, Present, and Future, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Winter 2003. See also Thane Gustafson, Capitalism Russian-style, chapter 8; Anne Williamson, Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty; http://www.lenta.ru/lib/14160313/full.htm; and ttp://russiaprofile.org/bg_people/resources_whoiswho_alphabet_c_chubais.html
Thane Gustafson, Capitalism Russian-style, chapter 3; and Janine R. Wedel, The Harvard Boys Do Russia, The Nation, June 1, 1998.
Reuters, September 22, 2008; and Aaron Mulvihill, Russia Today
Marketwatch, September 26, 2008.

Marcilio Marques Moreira

http://www.labgbooth.org/conference/speakers/18

Carlos Salinas

Jeff Faux, The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future.
U.S. GAO, Private Banking: Raul Salinas, Citibank, and Alleged Money Laundering, GAO/OSI-99-1
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/family/citibankaffair.html.
http://www.cidob.org/es/documentacion/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_norte/mexico/carlos_salinas_de_gortari#6

Charlie McCreevy

Dick Cheney

Frits Bolkestein

Lawrence Summers

Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama Aide, New York Times, April 3, 2009.
Bloomberg News, March 3 and December 18, 2009.

Peter Mandelson

The Moscow Times, Oct 22, 2008
The Times, Oct 13, 2008
The Guardian, Oct 21, 2008
The Telegraph, Oct 24, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/3253562/Lord-Mand...

Tony Blair

BBC News, January 10, 2008.
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/series/blair-mystery and articles by David Leigh and Ian Griffiths on Dec 1, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/01/mystery-tony-blair-finances and Dec 19, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/17/mystery-tony-blairs-money-solved
Dispatches: The Wonderful World of Tony Blair, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-Dc3nmdYA
The Guardian, March 17, 2010.

Research: George Draffan
Design: Ricardo Santos

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	Introduction to the Davos Class Susan George The Davos class run our major institutions and know exactly what they want, but they face a huge crisis of legitimacy because their ideology isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.
	Planet Earth: A Corporate Run World Which are the biggest companies in the world? Which corporations control them? How does their power compare with states? > Interactive presentation \| Large image \| Download PDF
	The Global 0.001% Just 10.9 million people, or 0.15%, control $42.7 trillion dollars or two thirds of world GDP. An even tinier group of people, 0.001%, control a third of that amount. Where are they based? What could this money pay for? > Interactive presentation \| View as image \| Download PDF
	The World's Richest Men Who are they and how did they make their money? Which are the best countries to be rich in? (Version revised: 25 Jan 2012) > Interactive presentation \| View as image \| Download PDF
	Neoliberal architects A global economy that has benefited a small elite is no accident: it was carefully designed by politicians who often worked for transnational corporations and at times were rewarded by them after leaving office. > View as image \| Download PDF