corporations take over the world

i just read in one of my case studies that of the world's 100 largest economies in 2000, 49 were nations and 51 were corporations. http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html. (does anyone know the updated number for 2005?)

i know it's a little outdated of a statistic and like we didn't already know that corporations are taking over the world, but it just made me stop and think again about how it's still a scary world out there - thinking about the exchange of power, the power of politics (and money), and everything in between.

maybe that's why i'm in business school???? scary thought. i thought i was here to start a dent in changing the world...