Transnational capitalist class

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The transnational capitalist class (TCC or TNC), also known as the transnational capitalist network (TCN), in neo-Gramscian and other Marxian-influenced analyses of international political economy and globalization, is the global social stratum that controls supranational instruments of the global economy such as transnational corporations and political organs such as the World Trade Organization. In other words, it is "that segment of the world bourgeoisie that represents transnational capital".[1] It is characteristically cosmopolitan and unconstrained by national boundaries.

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  1. ^ Robinson, W. I. (2003) Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization. Verso Books, p. 39.