According to “CEO pay,” “The costs of inequality,” “Park Avenue,” and the “tax” videos, how do major corporations and their upper management operate politically to amass an increasingly large share of national and global wealth? What are the economic, social, and political consequences? What are the principal steps in money laundering? GPCC: (1) how has the global distribution of wealth changed since 1400; (2) how did transformations in the organization of capital come about since then; (3) how has the level of global economic integration increased and what have been the consequences; (4) how can we explain the occasional collapse of national and global economies; and (5) where did the necessity of perpetual economic growth come from?