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How Wealth Is Ordered
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Parent Institution

This dimension names the larger institution that a specific economic body was created by or operates under. Wikipedia notes that international organizations can hold "legal personality separate from its member states," even while remaining accountable to the parent body that established them. Browsing this way moves between an institution and the parent body that created it.

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Institution KindSourced to the subject's own account
Private Sector 1
Parent Institution
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1. Credit rating agency (Wikipedia)
WikipediaCredit rating agency, founding section
Quote, Credit rating agency, founding section
The first such agency was established in 1841 by Lewis Tappan in New York City.
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