Front Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Dedication

Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1%

Political Economy and the Elite

The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book

1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%

The Professor and the Prince

Income and Wealth: A Primer

A Taxonomy of the Global 1%

Holding Wealth

The Geography of the 1%

Billionaireville

The Rest of Us

2: Capital as Power and the 1%

A Brief Genealogy of the Term ‘Capital’

Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation

Capital as Power

The Capitalist Mode of Power

The Architecture of Capitalisation

3: Wealth, Money and Power

A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy

Mercantilism

The Birth of Classical Political Economy

The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power

4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy

The Global Plutonomy

Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age

Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age

‘The Rich are Destroying the Earth’

5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth

From Hobbes to Locke’s Theory of Ownership

Rousseau, Bentham and Mainstream Economics

Veblen’s Political Economy

Unjust Deserts

The Distribution of Wealth and Capital as Power

6: The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects

Occupy in Context

Five Reasons Why Present Trends Will Likely Continue

Ten Priorities

Creativity, Power and the Meaning of Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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