金融市场和网络经济往往会造成经济和社会权力的集中，如果这些集中的权力被用于俘虏和控制政治权力，那么在正常情况下有效的制衡系统也会失灵。
If the concentrated economic and social power that financial markets and network economies tend to create can be used to capture and control political power, an effective system of checks and balances becomes virtually impossible.