Voronov, AB. Who owns our planet? Review on the book by Chernikov, G.P., Chernikova, D.A. The extra large transnational corporations and the modern world. – Moscow: ZAO “Publisher “Economika”, 2008, – 399 p. ISBN 978 – 5 – 282 – 02819 – 5.

Abstract: The review is devoted to the book, which is about the extra large transnational corporations, which play a greatly growing role in the world economics nowadays. Just several hundred such companies play key role among tens of thousands of the companies For example, 800 extra large companies directly or indirectly control about one half of world GDP. The author of review singles out the topics of relations between extra large companies and the state, their influence on existing problems of the humanity as a whole, and their role in the global financial and economical crisis. Keywords: corporation, largest, economics, branches, society, state, international relations