Corporation (CTP1)

Corporation is an advance in Civilization: Call to Power.
==Summary==
The Corporation, the sixth Economic Advance, opens a new age of economic warfare. In this new war, the power of the marketplace can be used to weaken and defeat the enemy. New Corporate Branches create franchises that siphon off 50% of a foreign city's valuable production. Without severing all economic ties, no nation is safe.
== Great Library entry ==
The early Corporation began as little more than individuals making collective bets on high-risk overseas ventures. From these developed the true Corporations of the industrial age, vast vertically-integrated monopolies designed to encourage investment, commerce, and ultimately stomp out competition. In Germany, BESM and Pharm-copia joined forces with local universities to dominate the world-wide chemical industry while in the United States, such giants as Andrew Carnegie and James D. Rockefeller dominated the nation's rail, steel, and oil industries.