The world’s largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country.
A private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spends as much on health care as the World Health Organization.
The rise of private power may be the most important and least understood trend of our time. In Power Inc., David Rothkopf takes a timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states.
