Pursuing the "corporate responsibility" topic and your comment on the demise of the city/state, I am fascinated by the idea of extending the increasing world-wide corporate power into the future.

I teach Public Administration at the local college and preach constantly that private mangers have much more power and flexibility than their public sector counterparts, primarily because of the divided sovereignty (e.g. state v. local; executive v. legislative) in the public sector.

This allows large corporations to manipulate countries for their own ends, does it not?