economy – Future of News and Participatory Media https://partnews.mit.edu Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:18:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 The capitalist network the runs that world? https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/21/the-capitalist-network-the-runs-the-world/ https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/21/the-capitalist-network-the-runs-the-world/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:27:13 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=514 Hey everyone!

So I didn’t do a cool data project, but wanted to see what everyone thought about this one:

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

It was from last year. How strong is the data and the graph?

The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One)

 

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