In reply to Tim Wright.

I agree that the past 100 years have been an anomaly, but it is the first time that we have had a large middle class in certain parts of the world (though this is quickly shrinking). The corporation was an experiment to deal with large scale capitalism, and we had no real models to base it on, other than the military or the church. But perhaps this period was not a blip and really just the first phase of dealing with the new electric communications medium? Now that we are ~150 years post-telegraph, we are finally realizing that things have radically changed. It's like the early 1600's in Europe, 150 years after the printing press, and all hell is breaking loose.