Power, Inc.

 The Catholic Church was the first global "private" enterprise. p.36
..history demonstrates that when the power of states is reduced, with alarming regularity, it does not benefit average citizens so much as it does big private actors well positioned to swoop in and take best advantage of the opening.

‎"We have since gone from a battle between communism and capitalism to something even more complex: a battle between differing forms of capitalism."

"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln, letter to Col. William Elkins http://www.amazon.com/Power-Inc-Business-Government%C2%97-Reckoning/dp/1455126357