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Date posted: 18 August 2008
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The international superclass are people with a hugely disproportionate share of global power - who are these people and how much power do they wield?
Their rise to power owes much to the effects of globalisation and the gradual reduction of trade and information barriers throughout the world.
Al Jazeera asks: Does the global superclass make our governments and legal systems obsolete?
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