(((Okay, if the "East India Company" is a spiritual ancestor of corporate globalization, where is John Company's descendant? Halliburton (in Iraq)? Wal-Mart (in China)? Some actual Indian company? Maybe the best candidate for running a state like a business is the Russian mafia.)))
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/east_india_company_3899.jsp
Once consigned to the history books, the East India Company is now re-emerging as an unquiet ghost at the feast of globalisation. In Britain, high-profile exhibitions along with a string of popular histories have revived the "honourable company's" reputation. Its founders are hailed as swashbuckling adventurers crossing the globe in search of spices and its executives are profiled as multicultural "white mughals".
