Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:43:03 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Top 100
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

ecf wrote:
> It may be of interest that of the top 100 economic entities in the
> world, 51 are corporations.
>
> http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
>
> Ever since I read "The Stars My Destination" I've thought that corporate
> wealth would become more powerful than governments.

Not "The Space Merchants" or "Gladiator at Law"?  It was quite a common
theme at one time.

Note also that governments have geographic limitations.  Corporations do
not.

     --Steve

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Steve Smith                       Agincourt Computing
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