 Transnational capitalist class

The transnational capitalist class (TCC), 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 heavily influences political organs such as the World Trade Organization.Up until 1960s capitalist class was studied mostly within the national context.