Corporate power and crisis Susan George provides an introduction to the infographic series, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis. See also: The Davos Class

Planet Earth: A Corporate World Which are the biggest companies in the world? Which corporations control them? How does their power compare with states?

The Global 0.001% Just 11 million people, or 0.15%, control $42 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? How much wealth does that leave for the rest of us?

The World's Richest 25 Just 25 people, almost all men, increased their known wealth to $827 billion in 2012. That could pay for the costs for every student in the US to go to university more than three times or pay for universal primary and secondary education throughout the developing world four times.