Exposing the Davos Class

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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.

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?



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

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-Mandelson-under-pressure-to-reveal-details-of-meetings-with-Oleg-Deripaska.html

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