corporatocracy
Sign in to savethumb|Protester holding Adbusters' Corporate American flag at the [[Second inauguration of George W. Bush in Washington, D.C.]] Corporatocracy or corpocracy is an economic, political and judicial system controlled or influenced by business corporations or corporate interests.
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Forms of corporatocracy
- Use of corporatocracy and similar ideas
- Corporate influence on politics in the United States
- Corruption
- Corporate influence on legislation
- Perceived symptoms of corporatocracy in the United States
- Share of income
- Effective corporate tax rates
- Stock buybacks versus wage increases
- Industry concentration
- Mass incarceration
- Austerity
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Protester holding Adbusters' Corporate American flag at the [[Second inauguration of George W. Bush in Washington, D.C.]] Corporatocracy or corpocracy is an economic, political and judicial system controlled or influenced by business corporations or corporate interests.
The concept has been used in explanations of bank bailouts, excessive pay for CEOs, and the exploitation of national treasuries, people, and natural resources. It has been used by critics of globalization, sometimes in conjunction with criticism of the World Bank or unfair lending practices, as well as criticism of free trade agreements. Corporate rule is also a common theme in dystopian science-fiction media.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “corporatocracy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.