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"Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World The large foundations of America's industrial giants have played a truly profound - and largely overlooked - role in the shaping of modern society By Andrew Gavin Marshall Alternet, June 19, 2013 Straight to the Source For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Politics and Democracy page. "The corporate-policy network is highly centralized, at both the level of individuals and that of organizations. Its inner circle is a tightly interwoven ensemble of politically active business leaders..." -- Academics William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski In an article titled "The Global Corporate Elite" in the journal International Sociology, William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski examined the relationship between the corporate elite and the emergence of a "transnational policy-planning network," beginning with its formation in the decades following World War II and speeding up in the 1970s with the creation of "global policy groups" and think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, in 1971, and the Trilateral Commission, in 1973, among many others."

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