Via Arts & Letters Daily comes a New York Review of Books article looking at the “Leviathan,” Wal-Mart. It makes for interesting reading.
For example, with 1.4 million employees worldwide, Wal-Mart’s workforce is now than GM, Ford, GE, and IBM combined. And Wal-Mart’s 2003 annual revenues are 2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product […]