Global Inc.

An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

Medard Gabel and Henry Bruner

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$24.95 / £14.95

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 49 are corporations. A handful of corporate giants control most of the world’s energy, technology, food, banks, industry, and media. Yet despite the ubiquity of enormous multinationals as the leading agents of globalization in the world, the history and character of corporate entities remains largely unknown, daunting, and inaccessible to the general public.

Global Inc. is an atlas that charts this new, multinational geography. It features an extraordinary series of 200 specially commissioned full-color maps that show how multinational corporations such as General Motors, Toyota, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, British Petroleum, and AOL Time Warner, have spread out across the globe. Colorful explanatory charts and graphs make clear the tremendous and surprising reach of individual corporations. And additional maps chart the rise of trade, multinational financial institutions, and global tools like the Internet.

The product of several years of collaborative research by leading historians and geographers, Global Inc. is the first book to examine multinational corporations from a truly global perspective, and in atlas format. Impartial, accessible, and engrossing, Global Inc. offers a penetrating look at one of the most powerful phenomena on the planet in the twenty-first century.

Medard Gabel is the director of product development and cofounder of osEarth, Inc., a research and education company. He is the author of five books, including Energy, Earth and Everyone; Ho-Ping: Food for Everyone; and Empty Breadbasket. He lives in Philadelphia. Henry Bruner is director and senior researcher at the World Game Institute in Philadelphia.