Network Analysis
As I have written before, I am becoming obsessed with two things: the study of persuasion and the study of networks and their effects on the political process.
Today, a fellow political consultant sent me the following link to a Ted Talk by James B. Glattfelder.
The Ted talk was entitled “Who controls the world?”
sidenote: some copy writer some where knew exactly how to write a headline that would make every political geek in the world click. Nicely done!
This is NOT the old 80/20 rule, this is a network analysis showing exactly how a few emerge from a large, complex network to exert massive amounts of power.
The political implications of this study are enormous. If you are as interested as I am in this topic, please read the entire study, “The Network of Global Corporate Control”.
If you don’t want to read it, then listen to the Ted Talk. It is 14 minutes well spent. I promise!