Organizing Principles

From Weaponry to Market Cap

 

Influences on our lives change rapidly. We were once in thrall to family or tribe. Then it became states and then nations. Now look:

 

Apple’s market value of $868 billion is almost as much as the value of the entire stock exchange of Spain ($894 billion) which lists and trades more than 3,200 publicly traded companies. 

Alphabet (formerly Google) is now worth $716 billion, which is almost as much as the $752 billion market cap for the Singapore Exchange, where more than 750 companies are traded.





The four companies above approximate the value of all the companies traded on Canada's Toronto Exchange.