Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order

by Richard J. Barnet

Book Overview

From Richard J. Barnet, coauthor of the groundbreaking bestseller Global Reach, and John Cavanagh comes an authoritative portrait of global corporations as they have evolved over the last twenty years.

Global Dreams focuses on five companies to reveal the far-reaching impact global corporations have on the world's economy, environment, and people. Today, 300 companies control about 25% of the world's productive assets and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684800276
• ISBN13: 9780684800271
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Provocative and Scary

Imperial Corporations is an easily readable, fact-filled book portraying the rise of a "standardized culture" across the planet. This is a culture of Pepsico and Madonna, of Bertelmann and American Express. The book is full of scary facts about these major corporations, andothers, such as Sony and Citibank. It reads like a novel and you can breeze through it, though, as I said, it's full of incredibly interesting material on the global corporate power structure.