ABSTRACT
In recent decades the development of a transnational phase of capitalism, said to
include the global integration of national economies, the mobility of capital and
global reach of accumulation circuits, and the growing role of organizations like
the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO),
has claimed the attention of legions of social scientists. With this interest has
come a concern to theorize the segment of the world bourgeoisie purported to
represent transnational capital and the ideology, neoliberalism, which seems to
underwrite its expansion. These issues have gained additional salience as scholars
such as Robinson and Harris (2000) and Sklair (2001) have discerned the for-
mation of a fully transnational capitalist class (TCC). In this chapter we focus on
the contribution that neoliberal policy groups have made, through elite-level
directorship interlocks, to transnational capitalist class formation.
