Introduction: the global corporate takeover -- Theorizing global corporations' power -- Geographical concentration -- National institutional embeddedness -- Private authority and the potential for private governance -- Conclusion: three implications

"Capitalism has lost its glamor. In just three decades since it defeated a totalitarian Soviet Union, capitalism is today blamed for slowing growth, a dangerously changing climate, inequality, social misery, and a rise in nationalist populism. How did capitalism fall so far from grace?...