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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11413)	11/24/2001 4:08:56 PM
From: spiral3	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hawk, doesn't bear closer scrutiny I’m not sure I’d agree with your methodology here, surely one would need to compare the trend you observed to the trend as it relates to an entity that you would consider to be a bona fide Economic Imperialist. I most certainly haven’t done this research, but feel that this would be a necessary comparison before coming to any conclusions. The other thing is that you are assuming that these numbers are even capable of delivering the required analysis. There may be other ways of looking at the concentration power. In the same way we are familiar with the gap between rich and poor, where increasing wealth is held by a smaller percentage of the population, we may look at more specific sources of the global GDP and not just it’s overall distribution. Hypothetically, we may find that 30% say of international trade is controlled by 10 or 11 companies, and could then then look to where those companies are headquartered. For example I remember reading somewhere that the amount of trade being done between the different branches of the multinationals, is increasing at a faster rate than the overall growth of global gdp. To be clear, I haven’t done the research on this and these numbers are just the first that popped to mind and are probably very wrong. There is nothing particularly concrete here except for some other ways of looking at the characterization of power and that perhaps on the macro level it may be useful to isolate the economic flows associated with International Trade as a distinct component of the worlds gdp, before coming to any firm conclusions. I may not agree entirely, but I think there is something to your other points and that they are well made.

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