Occupy AstroPT!!!

upsides when compared to jupiter and the sun: its closer, its not radioactive, its gravity wont crush you and IT HAS WATER!!!! no dolphins tho.

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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed–the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears.

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The study’s assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy.

Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.

The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo).

But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power.

It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world’s transnational corporations (TNCs).

“Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” says James Glattfelder. “Our analysis is reality-based.”

Crucially, by identifying the architecture of global economic power, the analysis could help make it more stable.

By finding the vulnerable aspects of the system, economists can suggest measures to prevent future collapses spreading through the entire economy.

Glattfelder says we may need global anti-trust rules, which now exist only at national level, to limit over-connection among TNCs.

Bar-Yam says the analysis suggests one possible solution: firms should be taxed for excess interconnectivity to discourage this risk.

One thing won’t chime with some of the protesters’ claims: the super-entity is unlikely to be the intentional result of a conspiracy to rule the world.

“Such structures are common in nature,” says Sugihara.

So, the super-entity may not result from conspiracy.

The real question, says the Zurich team, is whether it can exert concerted political power.

Driffill feels 147 is too many to sustain collusion.

Braha suspects they will compete in the market but act together on common interests.

Resisting changes to the network structure may be one such common interest.