Abuse of economic power

A 2001 study showed that 44 of the U.S. corporations in the top 200 list failed to pay the full 35 percent standard corporate tax rate from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, seven companies—General Motors, Texaco, Chevron, Pepsi, Enron, Worldcom and McKesson—actually received rebates for taxes paid. Despite their market share and continuing growth, the top 200 companies employ only a fraction of the world's workers. In 1999, they employed 0.78 percent of the world's work force, compared with their 27 percent share of world economic activity. And while corporate profits grew 362.4 percent between 1983 and 1999, the number of people employed by these same companies only increased by 14.4 percent.

1. Unethical financial practices
2. Abuse of power

1. Unethical practices of employers
2. Over-pricing
3. Non-accountability of offshore banks
4. Monopoly of the economy by corporations
5. Misuse of free production zones and export enclaves
6. Labour tensions involving transnationals
7. Exploitation in rural pricing
8. Economically controlled political power
9. Economic sanctions against governments
10. Economic repression
11. Economic manipulation
12. Economic intimidation
13. Economic exploitation
14. Economic dictatorship
15. Consumerism
16. Abusive use of trademarks
17. Abuse of monopoly power of state-owned or state-controlled enterprises
18. Abuse of dominant market position in international trade
19. Abuse of banking secrecy

1. Unethical practices of transnational corporations
2. Economic discrimination

1. Limited ownership of productive systems
2. Institutional economic domination
3. Elitist control of global economy

1. Using economic power
2. Increasing international economic cooperation

1. Uneconomic
2. Power
3. Independence
4. Dependence
5. Abuse